[Mhiz Rebecca]

About 20 people were killed when their boat capsized Friday
in Lake Victoria as it was carrying passengers to mainland
Uganda for Christmas holidays, police said.
The vessel was travelling from Bukasa island to the coastal
town Entebbe when it flipped for reasons that are still
unclear.
“About 20 confirmed dead, 10 have been rescued”, area police
commander Richard Musisi told AFP. “Of the 20 who died we
have managed to retrieve four bodies from the lake.”
“We can’t at the moment put a finger on what happened.
Whether it was overload or the waves”, he said adding none
of the passengers were wearing life jackets.
Bukasa’s inhabitants are largely fishermen and farmers. It is a
favourite for foreign tourists, though none were among the
dead.
Deadly accidents are common on Ugandan waters. In
November about 10 people drowned when a boat capsized on
Lake Albert in northeast Uganda.