Fifteen bodies have been recovered from a lake in Zimbabwe where a passenger ferry capsized on Tuesday, and at least 27 people including young children are still missing, a local official told state-owned The Herald newspaper.
Police said on Tuesday that a boat carrying 90 passengers and five crew members had capsized on Lake Kariba but did not give a death toll or say how many people had been rescued.
Some 77 passengers have been rescued and are on an island in the lake, where rescue teams are working to bring them to safety on the mainland, The Herald reports.
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation cited a local official as saying that 114 tickets had been issued for the ferry’s journey, suggesting more people were on board.
The police spokesperson did not answer Reuters phone calls seeking comment on Wednesday.
Lake Kariba lies on Zimbabwe’s border with Zambia, more than 300 kilometres northeast of the capital Harare. It is the world’s largest man-made lake by volume.
