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Metres from Shore: How MV Nyerere Went Down With 228 Lives
Metres from Shore: How MV Nyerere Went Down With 228 Lives
Fear that what looks safe can kill: a ferry rated for 100 passengers capsized just 50 metres from Bwisya dock, dragging at least 228 people into Lake Victoria on September 20, 2018 - and the machine that recorded who was aboard sank with the ship. Four separate survivor accounts disagree about the cause; how did an ordinary crossing become one of East Africa’s deadliest maritime disasters?
In this episode, we tell what happened on that afternoon crossing between Bugolora port and Bwisya dock, who was aboard, what cargo the Nyerere…
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