Everything about Mv Bukoba totally explained
MV Bukoba was a passenger
steamer that sank in
Lake Victoria, 30 kilometers from
Mwanza,
Tanzania on
May 21 1996, killing nearly 1000 people. The boat transported passengers and cargo between
Bukoba and
Mwanza ports.
The steamer's capacity was 430, but around 800 people drowned as the boat sank to the bottom of Lake Victoria. The manifest showed 443 passengers in the first and second class cabins, but the cheaper third class compartment had no manifest.
The lack of equipment and divers were partially to blame for the death toll. Rescue teams from
South Africa were flown in to salvage the ship and retrieve bodies that sank 25 meters under water.
President
Benjamin Mkapa of
Tanzania declared three days of national mourning after the tragedy.
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