Dozens more bodies were recovered after the sinking of a ferry carrying hundreds of people in
Tanzania, taking the death toll up to 86, the privately owned The Citizen newspaper said on its website on Friday.
The paper cited figures from John Mongella, the regional commissioner for Mwanza, where the MV Nyerere capsized on Thursday afternoon.
The number was put at 42 on Thursday.
Ukerewe District Commissioner Colonel Lucas Magembe told Reuters that the rescue mission to find survivors from the disaster had been halted until dawn on Friday with 42 people confirmed dead.
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