(Reuters) – Tanzanian authorities said on Sunday the number of people who died in a ferry that capsized in Lake Victoria had risen to 224 and the vessel’s managers had been detained for questioning.The ferry, MV Nyerere, sank on …Read more via Yahoo News – Latest News & Headlines – https://ift.tt/2NAU3uW Get More Nigeria Metro News The bodies of 172 people who died in the boat tragedy have been identified, Tanzania’s Minister of Works, Transport and Communication Isack Kamwelwe said. Hopes had faded of finding any more survivors three days after the disaster, even after rescuers pulled out an engineer on Saturday who had holed up in an air pocket in the upturned vessel. No further survivors were likely to be found and search efforts had ended, defence minister Venance Mabeyo told reporters at the scene. But Majaliwa said divers would continue the grim search in the waters around the boat. The definitive cause of the capsizing is not yet known but officials have said preliminary investigation shows the ferry was carrying more people than legally permitted. On Friday, Tanzania's President John Magufuli said he had ordered the arrest of all those who managed the ferry, and declared four days of national mourning. He spoke of "great mourning by the whole nation" as the first coffins were placed in individual graves, many of the victims unidentified.
The death toll of the MV Nyerere sinking in Lake Victoria, Tanzania, rises to 224. Several are still missing.