Death toll reaches 100 in Tanzania ferry disaster, hundreds feared missing
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - More than 100 bodies have been retrieved after a ferry sank on Lake Victoria, Tanzanian state radio reported on Friday, and hundreds more were still feared missing as rescuers searched for survivors from daybreak on the morning after the disaster.
Radio TBC Taifa reported the latest toll from the sinking of the ferry MV Nyerere, which capsized on Thursday afternoon just a few meters from the dock on Ukerewe, the lake’s biggest island, which is part of Tanzania.
Initial estimates suggested that the ferry was carrying more than 300 people.
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I think incidences like this have happened on that lake before. Third world traveling, I've seen it on trains, sometimes are packed with sardines. Even on some of our light rails and subways, we see this. Being on a boat is different.
