30 feared dead as boat sinks
12/02/2008 07:18  - (SA)  

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Kampala - Up to 30 people - mostly women - were feared drowned on Monday after a heavily-laden boat capsized on Lake Victoria, leaving only six survivors, said reports.

The boat departed from Bumba landing site on the Buvuma islands archipelago, roughly in the middle of Africa's largest fresh-water lake, the reports said.

It sank just before Rwanika landing site in Mayuge district on the far eastern side of the Ugandan waters of the Victoria, a Kampala- based private radio station, KFM, reported.

Another private radio station, Central Broadcasting Service (CBS), said the boat was carrying seven tons of fish and other cargo, and the victims were mostly women fish traders.

Many lives were lost in marine accidents on Ugandan lakes every year - many blamed on overladen, speeding boats, which were sometimes in poor condition.

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