(UTV|COLOMBO) – At least 29 people have died and more than 60 are feared drowned after a pleasure boat sank on Lake Victoria, according to Ugandan police.
The vessel carrying more than 80 revellers sank during bad weather on Saturday in the latest deadly incident to affect passenger boats on Africa’s largest lake.
“The boat was overloaded and secondly there was bad weather,” the deputy police spokesman, Patrick Onyango, told Reuters, adding the boat was carrying 84 people. “Our rescue team is still on the ground trying to rescue whoever we can find.”
The boat sank a short distance from the shore off Mutima in the Mukono district, close to the capital, Kampala.
