ODM leader Raila Odinga has sent his condolences to the families of the people who died in the
MV Nyerere tragedy in Tanzania.
At least 42 people drowned when the ferry sank on Thursday in Lake Victoria and government officials fear the toll could be more than 200.
Ukerewe District Commissioner Colonel Lucas Magembe said the rescue mission
to find survivors had been halted until Friday.
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"I send sincere and heartfelt condolences to families who lost loved ones in the MV Nyerere tragedy. I mourn with the people of Tanzania at this very difficult moment," Raila said via Twitter on Friday.
"May God grant peace and strength to the families, the caregivers and the Tanzanian nation."
In 1996, a ferry disaster on Lake Victoria in the same region killed at least 500 people.
In 2012, at least 145 people died in a ferry disaster in
Tanzania's semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean, on a vessel that was overcrowded.
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