Tanzania ferry disaster toll crosses 200

Grieving families were on Sunday preparing to bury victims of Tanzania’s devastating ferry disaster, with more than 200 confirmed dead after the crowded boat capsized in Lake Victoria.

Hopes were fading of finding any more survivors three days after the ferry sank, even after rescuers pulled out an engineer who had managed to find refuge in an air pocket in the vessel. “We are going to start burying bodies not yet identified by relatives,” said John Mongella, governor of Mwanza region.