More than 30 people have been killed in Sudan when a boat they were travelling in drowned in the River Nile, Sudanese police confirmed on Tuesday. The Sudanese police in the Nile State said in a press release that the 37 from the village of Hagar Alasal died while they were crossing the river to another village on the eastern bank of the river.
The small ferry boat had overloaded with passengers and cargo and that led to its sinking and the death of the people, the police explained.
We are conducting a rescue operation to find the bodies of the victims, until now we have recovered 12 bodies and we are still looking for the remaining bodies.
The people of Sudan widely use riverboats for navigation and transportation of the goods and animals.
The repeated incidents of the drowning of river barges have led to the authorities banning navigation without official permission.
Tuesday 23 September 2014
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