The rescue crews, with the help of 25 divers, tried for three days to locate any survivors in the lake – Five people were rescued, four students and a teacher
The latest death toll from the wreck of an overloaded boat on a lake in northwestern Pakistan has risen to 51, including 49 children, police said today.
Rescue teams, with the help of 25 divers, spent three days trying to locate any survivors in Tada Dam Lake, near Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. An instructor and the boat’s operator also died, said Fazal Naeem, a local police spokesman. “The ship capsized, it was overloaded, it could only carry 20-25 people at most,” he explained.
Five people were rescued, four students and a teacher.
The children attended a Koranic school and had gone on a field trip.
Shipwrecks with many casualties are common in Pakistan, partly because poorly maintained boats are overloaded and capsize and partly because many Pakistanis do not know how to swim.
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