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30 feared drowned after boat capsizes in Lake Victoria

By DPA

Kampala : At least 30 people, mostly women, were feared drowned after a heavily-laden boat capsized in Lake Victoria, leaving only six survivors, local media reports said.

The boat left Bumba landing site on the Buvuma islands archipelago in the middle of Africa’s largest freshwater 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 privately-owned radio station, Central Broadcasting Service (CBS), said the boat was carrying seven tonnes of fish and other cargo, and the victims were mostly women fish traders.

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