Police, UPDF resume operation to retrieve wreckage of ill-fated boat – PHOTOS
UPDF and Police divers sort ropes to re-enforce the first one which snapped as they tried to pull out the ill-fated boat wreckage on November 27, 2018. PHOTO BY STEPHEN OTAGE
Police and Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) marine units on Tuesday resumed operation to retrieve the wreckage of the ill-fated boat from Lake Victoria.
Part of the mission is to establish if there are more bodies still trapped under following Saturday’s boat wreck.
The operation started Monday but was not concluded as attempts to establish if there were more bodies still trapped under following Saturday’s boat wreck continued.
The police spokesperson for the Mutima rescue and recovery operation, Ms Zurah Ganyana, said the number of bodies recovered so far is 32 although none was recovered Monday.
Rescuers using an excavator to pull the wreckage of the ill-fated boat from the water at Mutima Country Haven Beach . PHOTO BY STEPHEN OTAGE
“The search continues today (Tuesday) and the officers are all set with the required equipment to have the wreckage out,” she said.
Several people remain unaccounted for as authorities say the ill-fated boat was transporting more than 100 revelers from KK Beach at Ggaba Landing Site in Kampala to Mpatta Island in Mukono District before it capsized in Lake Victoria near Mutima Country Haven Beach killing dozens.
City socialite Bryan White joins UPDF marine units to reinforce a rope that snapped as they tried to pull the wreckage of the ill-fated boat from the water at Mutima Country Haven Beach on November 27, 2018. PHOTO BY STEPHEN OTAGE
A man talks to an elderly lady, Ms Justine Nakafeero who was lying down in protest against police and UPDF marine units' excavator using her garden to pull the boat wreckage. She refused to leave her garden saying they had destroyed her maize, beans, cassava and sweet potatoes which she had planted to feed her children when they return home for holidays next week. She said she did not have anything else to feed them on and so she is worried she may not be compensated. PHOTO BY STEPHEN OTAGE
It was until city socialite Brian Kirumira aka Bryan White gave her husband Shs1m as compesation that she moved.
