Balance the boat: One year later
Nov 23, 2019
A joint operation by Police and Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) marines and locals managed to recover 32 bodies and rescued 26 people
MUKONO - Tomorrow November 24, will be exactly one year since the tragedy befell the country when a boat - MV Templar, carrying over 100 people, capsized, killing over 30 people on Lake Victoria.
Police marines trying to retrieve the boat wreckage
A joint operation by Police and Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) marines and locals managed to recover 32 bodies and rescued 26 people, including Prince David Wasajja of Buganda, musician Iryn Namubiru and a city tycoon, John Fredrick Kiyimba commonly known as Freeman.
Locals trying to pull the wreckage out of the lake
A body is retrieved from the water
Names of some of the deceased
John Bosco Nyanzi
Chuck
Templa and Sheila the owners of the boat
Namutebi
Owecho
Isaac Kayondo
Michael Kaddu
Mawanda Fred
Winnie Kobusingye
Musumba
Locals look on as the police marines retrieve the boat
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