Rescue workers have said that they have found the bodies of nearly 200 people, many of them children, after an overloaded ferry sank in Tanzania.
The boat, carrying tourists from the island of Zanzibar to Pemba, had been designed to hold 600 passengers, but there may have been as many as 800 on board. Witnesses said she was listing even as she left port.
Police and rescuers continue searching for more survivors and bodies, covering the beaches nearby and expectant of discovering many who were trapped inside the hull when the ship flipped and capsized.
606 have apparently been rescued so far, but the number of the dead from this terrible tragedy is truly appalling, and will probably rise further.
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