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Lake Victoria ferry death toll rises to 37, dozens still missing

GEORGE OKELLO | PML Daily Senior CorrespondentbyGEORGE OKELLO | PML Daily Senior Correspondent
September 21, 2018
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The death toll in the capsizing of a ferry, MV Nyerere has risen to 37 as scores remain missing (PML Daily PHOTO)

MWANZA – The number of people confirmed to have drowned on Thursday in a Tanzania ferry accident has reached 37.

MV Nyerere which was carrying more than 100 people sank in Lake Victoria on Thursday.

The ferry was plying between Bugorara and Ukala islands in Tanzania.

Mwanza Regional Police Commander Jonathan Shanna on Friday morning confirmed the deaths, adding that rescue efforts are underway.

The Tanzania Electrical, Mechanical and Electronics Services Agency (TEMESA) had on Thursday said over 40 people had been rescued from the water. TEMESA said an operation was underway to rescue more people.

The ferry has a capacity of 100 people but Tanzanian newspaper The Citizen quotes a witness saying that it was overloaded at the time of the incident. It is not clear how many people were on the ferry at the time the incident occurred.

“We pray to God to give us hope in such an accident,” Regional Commissioner Adam Malima told reporters. “We pray to God to give us hope that there has not been a high death toll.”

Fishermen join rescue workers in search of the missing persons as over 30 people are confirmed dead in the ferry, MV Nyerere (PML Daily PHOTO)

TEMESA Spokeswoman Theresia Mwami is quoted by Reuters as saying that the ferry did not have any mechanical problems because TEMESA had carried out heavy maintenance on it in recent months including overhauling two engines.

Accidents are common on Africa’s largest lake, Victoria, where boats often depart overcrowded. In 2012, at least 145 people died in a ferry disaster in the semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean, on a vessel that was overcrowded.

More than 800 people died in 1996 when the MV Bukoba capsized. It was one of the worst maritime disasters of the last century.

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