{"id":303058,"date":"2018-09-21T07:53:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T07:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303058"},"modified":"2018-09-21T07:53:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T07:53:43","slug":"tanzania-ferry-capsizes-kills-44-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/tanzania-ferry-capsizes-kills-44-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania Ferry Capsizes, Kills 44 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_303059\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-303059\" style=\"width: 631px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/tanzania-ferry-capsizes-kills-44-people\/tanzania\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-303059\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303059\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/tanzania-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/tanzania-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/tanzania-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/tanzania-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/tanzania-696x430.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/tanzania-679x420.jpg 679w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/tanzania.jpg 833w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-303059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Stephen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 44 people were killed on Thursday when a passenger ferry carrying hundreds capsized in Tanzania&#8217;s Lake Victoria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The accident occurred between two islands in Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa, which straddles the borders of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya, reports said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sources says, the exact number of those on board wasn&#8217;t immediately known as the ferry was overloaded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The death toll is expected to rise as rescue operations are underway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the reports, 37 people were rescued on Thursday night by rescue teams, the rescue operation was halted because of poor visibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 2011, Approximately 200 people were killed after an overloaded vessel hit strong winds off the island of\u00a0Zanzibar\u00a0in the\u00a0Indian Ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 44 people were killed on Thursday when a passenger ferry carrying hundreds capsized in Tanzania&#8217;s Lake Victoria. The accident occurred between two islands in Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa, which straddles the borders of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya, reports said. Sources says, the exact number of those on board wasn&#8217;t immediately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[5176,5177,5175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303062,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303058\/revisions\/303062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}