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A ferry capsizes on Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe, leaving at least 92 people dead. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News, where Wikipedia excerpts are read verbatim
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  by a computer. A ferry capsizes on Lake Cariba, Zimbabwe,
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  leaving at least ninety two people dead. On the eleventh
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  of August twenty twenty six, the Imbuya Nahnda passenger ferry
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  capsized on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. At least ninety two
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  people were killed, including eighteen children, making it the deadliest
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  boat disaster in the country's history. The boat, which was
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  operated by Zimbabwe's Rural Infrastructure Development Agency, provided a transport
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  link between Kariba and the rural community of Chilala, was
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  carrying at least one hundred fourteen adults, five crew members,
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  and an unspecified number of children, despite an authorized passenger
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  capacity of ninety Some reports placed the total number aboard
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  at as many as one fifty three. Passengers had expressed
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  concerns about deteriorating weather before departure, and survivors later said
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  that requests to turn back or seek shelter were refused.
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  About thirty minutes into the journey, waves began washing over
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  the vessel, which was operating with only one functioning engine.
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  Water accumulated aboard the bilge pump became submerged and the
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  remaining engine eventually stopped, after which the ferry turned broadside
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  to the waves and capsized. President Emerson Manongagua declared a
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  state of disaster and acknowledged deficiencies in Zimbabwe's maritime capabilities.
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  The loss of the ferry disrupted transport and trade and
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  communities along the Chellala route, and the government pledged to
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  provide a replacement vessel and rehabilitate an alternative road connection.
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  Lake Kariba is the world's largest artificial lake and reservoir
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  by volume. It lies thirteen hundred kilometers upstream from the
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  mouth of the Zambizi River on the Indian Ocean along
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  the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Lake Kariba was filled
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  between nineteen fifty eight and nineteen sixty three following the
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  completion of the Kariba Dam at its northeastern end, flooding
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  the Kariba Gorge on the Zambizi River. The Zimbabwean town
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  of Kariba was built for construction workers on the lake dam,
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  while some other settlements such as Binga Village and Libizi
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  in Zimbabwe and Siavoga and Sinazongwe in Zambia, have expanded
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  to house people displaced by the damming of the river.
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  On the eleventh of August twenty twenty six, the Ferimbuya Nahanda,
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  running from Kariba to Chelala capsized, resulting in the death
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  of at least seventy two people, including eighteen children. It
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  is believed to be one of the deadliest boat disasters
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  in Zimbabwe's history. That's it for now. See the episode
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