Saturday, July 21, 2012

Tanzania halts ferry rescue - 146 presumed dead

Tanzania on Saturday halted rescue operations for a ferry accident that appears to have killed 146 people.

Tanzania government official Ali Juma Shamhuna said 69 passengers were confirmed dead and 77 were still missing, but the rescue efforts were called off because it was unlikely to still find any passengers alive in the Indian Ocean three days after the accident.

The ferry MV Skagit, which capsized Wednesday while travelling from the economic capital Dar es Salaam to the island of

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