Lake Albert Boat Accident Death Toll Reaches 108 The death toll in the Lake Albert boat accident has now risen to 108 with the hope of finding any survivors now lost. 25 March 2014
Kampala, March 25, 2014 (Gurtong) - On Monday 82 bodies were discovered floating on the waters at the shore in Kitebere where the accident happened on Saturday morning. On Sunday 6 bodies were retrieved on top of the 19 that were retrieved on Saturday. Most of the accident victims were children. The bodies have already been transported by water to Ntoroko health centre where the first bodies were taken. The district police commander Kibaale John Ojokuna Elatu told New Vision that the bodies were discovered during a search for the bodies. We found bodies floating on the water surface and on retrieving them we counted 82 bodies, said Ojokuna. The number of survivors still stands at 45 with hope for any survivors increasingly fading away. Ojokuna said that it is still difficult to estimate the exact number of people who were on board. On Saturday morning a boat carrying Congolese refuges who were escaping from Kyangwali refugee settlement camp capsized near Kitebere landing site in Ndaiga sub county Kibaale district. The refuges boarded the boat at Senjojo landing site in Kyangwali sub county Hoima district on their way to Ntoroko where they were supposed to pick vehicles on their way to return to the Democratic Republic of Congo where they feel is now secure. A similar boat accident recently happened in Upper Nile State as residents attempted to flee the fighting in the oil rich state. Over 200 people reportedly died as the boat they were crossing the Nile by to a safe area from Malakal capsized. Source: New Vision Posted in: Home, Foreign Relations -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14opxmtESSqbONtHaN3uUUQ5Lx335es-f9c5an-cmRrKuTQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
