Them 51 deadof which 49 childrenthe latest losses are related to the wreck of an overloaded boat on the lake in northwest Pakistanthe police said.
Rescue teams, with the help of 25 divers, spent three days trying to find survivors at Lake Tada Dam, near Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A teacher and a boat operator were also killed, local police spokesman Fazal Naeem said. “The ship capsized, it was overloaded, it could carry a maximum of 20-25 people,” he explained.
Five people were saved, four students and a teacher.
The children attended a Koranic school and went on excursions.
Shipwrecks with many casualties in Pakistan are common, partly because poorly maintained boats are overloaded and capsized, and partly because many Pakistanis cannot swim.
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Source: Kathimerini
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