Police had said on Saturday at least 10 people were dead following the accident off Uganda’s Mukono district, close to the capital Kampala. “The boat was overloaded and secondly there was bad weather,” Patrick Onyango told Reuters, adding the boat was carrying 84 people. Another 26 people had been rescued from the water, Onyango said, a lower figure than the initial 40 given by the police on Saturday. “Our rescue team is still on the ground trying to rescue whoever we can find,” he said. The East African nation has several kingdoms, whose kings wield considerable social clout but little political influence.

Source: Standard Digital November 26, 2018 08:26 UTC