Zanzibar Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/zanzibar/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 20 Sep 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Zanzibar Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/zanzibar/ 32 32 Death toll in Tanzania ferry sinking could exceed 200 https://jjcornish.com/2018/09/death-toll-in-tanzania-ferry-sinking-could-exceed-200/ Thu, 20 Sep 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/09/death-toll-in-tanzania-ferry-sinking-could-exceed-200/ At least 44 people have died when an overcrowded ferry collapsed and sank near the shore of Lake Victoria in Tanzania. Officials fear the death toll could rise above 200. The Motor Vessel Nyerere was a carrying more than 400 passengers when it capsized and sank between Ukora and Bugolora islands on Africa’s largest lake. […]

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]]> At least 44 people have died when an overcrowded ferry collapsed and sank near the shore of Lake Victoria in Tanzania.

Officials fear the death toll could rise above 200.

The Motor Vessel Nyerere was a carrying more than 400 passengers when it capsized and sank between Ukora and Bugolora islands on Africa’s largest lake.

It was close to shore and passengers had rushed to one side of the vessel to disembark.

Many were carry heavy goods having visited a weekly market.

100 people were rescued – 32 of them in critical condition.

Poor visibility halted rescue operations in the dark.

Overcrowding has caused a number of boating tragedies in Tanzania. A boat with a capacity of 620, but carrying more than 1 000 sank off Zanzibar in 2011, killing more than 200 people

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