CAIRO, Egypt
Sudanese authorities reported Monday the sinking of a boat last week on the Blue Nile and said at least 23 women are believed to have drowned.
There were 29 people on board the vessel when it capsized and sunk on Friday in southeastern Sennar province, according to the state-run SUNA news agency. All of the the passengers were women except for the captain, who survived, along with five passengers.
The report gave no reason for
the capsizing.
The women were daily laborers
working on farms in the Souki region and were returning home when their boat
capsized. Thirteen bodies were retrieved, and rescue workers were searching for
10 others, SUNA said.
The Blue Nile is an important
transport route for people and goods in the African nation. It joins with the
White Nile just north of the capital of Khartoum to form the Nile River, one of
the world’s longest rivers.
Such accidents on overloaded
boats are not uncommon on waterways in the African nation, where safety
measures are often disregarded.
At least 22 people — 21
students and a woman — drowned in 2018, when a boat sank in the Nile in Sudan.
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