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.”