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In Egypt, 15 drown after rural ferry sinks in Nile River | |
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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. | |
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. | |
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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