Scores die, over 350 missing as ship capsizes in Tanzania

Deck hands aboard the tourist diving vessel Kisi throw bottles of water to the parched survivors of the Zanzibar ferry that sunk off the coast of Pemba overnight, September 10, 2011.pic by Reuters staff, courtesy of MSNBC news.

From the wires, Ajabu Africa, posted 9/10/11

ZANZIBAR — An overcrowded ship carrying hundreds of people sank off mainland Tanzania on Saturday, leaving at least 192 people dead and hundreds more missing, Reuters reported.

At the last count, Reuters reported at least 606 survivors.

The ferry, M.V. Spice Islanders, was heavily overloaded, witnesses and survivors said. It sank in an area with heavy currents in deep sea between mainland Tanzania and Pemba Island at about 1 a.m. Saturday.

A doctor said at least 107 bodies had been identified. "We are still receiving many bodies by truck loads ... The death toll will likely be much higher," Karim Zam of the Mnazi Mmoja hospital in Zanzibar, as he continued to count bodies. Read full story on MSNBC

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