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A RURAL Infrastructural Development Agency (RIDA) security officer who survived the Mbuya Nehanda boat disaster has given a harrowing account of the moments before the ill-fated vessel capsized on Tuesday afternoon, saying 153 people were on board.<\/p>\n
Anymore Chambati, whose duties include ticketing and safekeeping money collected from fares, said he did a head count of occupants who totalled 153, including crew members.<\/p>\n
He narrated that panic erupted as water began getting into the boat due to…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> A RURAL Infrastructural Development Agency (RIDA) security officer who survived the Mbuya Nehanda boat disaster has given a harrowing account of the moments before the ill-fated vessel capsized on Tuesday afternoon, saying 153 people were on board. Anymore Chambati, whose duties include ticketing and safekeeping money collected from fares, said he did a head count […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,55138,14240,10506,591,6920,14792,257,6321,7218,41800,254,10724,4686,421],"class_list":["post-240947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-capsized","tag-ferry","tag-horror","tag-kariba","tag-lake","tag-moments","tag-news","tag-people","tag-recounts","tag-screaming","tag-south-africa-today","tag-survivor","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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