Lake Victoria disaster: 22 die after Ugandan party boat sinks

Overloading and bad weather likely causes as more than 60 are feared drowned

Twenty-two people have died and more than 60 are feared drowned after a pleasure boat sank on Lake Victoriain Uganda.

The vessel carrying close to a hundred revellers sank during bad weather on Saturday in the latest deadly incident to affect passenger boats on Africa’s largest lake.

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