At least 100 people are feared drowned after a ferry capsized on the Kilombero river in central Tanzania, the BBC quoted the country's state radio as saying late on Thursday.
The ferry, owned by the Tanzania Roads Company, is reported to have been carrying about 150 people when it sank, according to the acting police commander of Morogoro region, the BBC quoted state radio as saying.
The accident happened at around 1100 GMT on the Kilombero River, some 300 km (180 miles) west of Dar es Salaam, an area recently hit by torrential rains, the report said. The cause of the accident has not yet been established.
Acting police chief Juma Kondia told Radio Tanzania that four bodies had been recovered. Twenty others had been injured and four of them were reportedly in a critical condition, the BBC quoted state radio as saying. Efforts to recover other bodies were continuing, the police chief was quoted as saying.
(China Daily April 12, 2002)
