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Tanzania: Boat capsizes during storm in Tanzania
[IndependentOnline: 2005-07-10]

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Tanzanian police were scouring Lake Victoria on Sunday for seven people reported missing after a crowded wooden boat capsized during a storm, killing at least two of its 37 passengers and crew, officials said. "Police are still searching for those missing in the accident," said Zelothe Stephen, the police commander for Tanzania's lakeside town of Mwanza near where the boat overturned on Saturday. At least two people drowned while 28 others, including three cre. . .
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