Missile of the Nation
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KUHUS KUZAMA KWA MV BUKOBA (1996)
Newyork times waliandika yafuatayo
Some 500 passengers, many of them teen-agers, were believed to have drowned today when a ferry hit a rock and capsized in Lake Victoria, state-run radio and local journalists said.
Passing ships pulled 81 survivors from the water and recovered 21 bodies after the ferry sank 30 miles northwest of the Tanzanian lake port of Mwanza, Radio Tanzania said.
This is not an ordinary tragedy," President Benjamin Mkapa said in a live radio broadcast. "It is a national tragedy." He declared three days of mourning and said he would go to Mwanza on Wednesday.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/22/...as-tanzania-ferry-sinks-in-lake-victoria.html
AJALI YA TRAIN DODOMA (2002)
"It is a very bad situation, the hospitals are full to capacity and we have a shortage of doctors," said Anna Abdallah, the minister for health and a medical doctor, who was helping treat the injured in the wards at Dodoma regional hospital.
"I think there may be more," she said when asked if there were more bodies yet to be recovered.
The trains collided between Igandu and Msagali, southeast of Dodoma and about 250 miles west of Tanzania's main city and commercial capital Dar es Salaam.
Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa visited Dodoma hospital to comfort the injured. Sumaye announced two days of official mourning.
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/200-dead-in-tanzania-train-wreck/
