Tourism Congo-Tanzania: Now 129 dead in Tanzania – Congo lake accident

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Additional information received overnight from a source in Tanzania indicating 129 bodies were recovered from the waters of Lake Tanganyika, would make this one of the worst lake disasters in recent h

Additional information received overnight from a source in Tanzania indicating 129 bodies were recovered from the waters of Lake Tanganyika, would make this one of the worst lake disasters in recent history.

A major lake boat accident in the waters of the Congo DR bordering Tanzania happened on Friday last week.

The source said: “It shows that the boat was massively overloaded and had no life-vests for the passengers. The landing sites need better policing, and no boat should be allowed to leave without every passenger wearing a life-vest. It is the greed of the boat owners which is responsible for such accidents when they overload the boats with no respect for the safety of the people on board.”

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