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Ten dead, dozens missing in Uganda boating accident
Jul 21, 2010, 15:16 GMT
Kampala - Ten people have died and dozens more missing after an over-loaded boat sank in Uganda's Lake Victoria Wednesday, a police official said.
'We have recovered 10 bodies and more bodies are still being got out of the water,' police spokesman for Uganda's southern region, Noah Serunjoji, told the German Press Agency dpa. 'We are yet to establish the cause of the accident.'
Private radio station Sanyu FM put the figure of those missing after at 60, saying that only three people have been rescued.
Reports said the vessel was a leaky old boat carrying traders to islands in the archipelago lying along the western shores of the Lake.
Personnel from the police marine unit have been mobilized to help find survivors and retrieve bodies from the water.
Deadly boating accidents are common on Lake Victoria and other lakes in East and Central Africa, where vesselS in poor mechanical condition often take on too many passengers and too much cargo.
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