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Egypt: 14 dead, 3 missing, after boat sinks in Nile In Egypt, 15 drown after rural ferry sinks in Nile River
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CAIRO — Egypt’s state-run news agency says search parties have retrieved 14 bodies from the Nile River after a boat sank while transporting people between villages in the Nile Delta province of Kafr el-Sheikh. CAIRO — Egyptian search parties on Friday recovered an elderly man’s body from the Nile River, bringing the death toll to 15 from the sinking of a small ferryboat on New Year’s Eve, officials said. Two more people believed to have been on the boat were still missing.
MENA says search efforts for at least three more people believed to have been on the boat continued on Friday. The report adds that villagers gathered on the Nile banks in anger after the boat capsized late Thursday, but police “contained the situation.” The chief of the country’s River Transport Authority, Reda Ismail, told the state MENA news agency that the ferry did not have a license to operate between the Nile Delta villages.
Egypt’s social solidarity minister ordered the payment of 10,000 Egyptian pounds (around $1300) to each family of the deceased and 2,000 ($255) for the injured. The boat sank late Thursday in the Nile Delta province of Kafr el-Sheikh. It was not immediately clear what had caused the accident. Afterward, angry villagers gathered on the banks of the Nile, but the police “contained the situation,” MENA reported.
Egypt’s social solidarity minister, Ghada Wali, ordered the payment of 10,000 Egyptian pounds (around $1,300) to the family of each of the people who drowned and 2,000 Egyptian pounds ($255) for the injured.
Egypt has frequent transportation accidents, mainly because of poor maintenance and the lack of regulations. Nile boat collisions and capsizing are common in Egypt. Last July, a passenger boat hit a scow, causing the boat to capsize and 35 people drowned. After the incident, officials vowed to better monitor Nile traffic and crack down on illegal sailors.
A ferry sinking in 2006 killed more than 1,000 people.
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