Overloaded Ferry

• 

  More Than 150 Feared Drowned In Nigeria Boat Accident

  More than 150 people were missing and feared drowned in northwest Nigeria on Wednesday after an overloaded boat ferrying passengers to a market sank in the Niger River, local officials said.

• 

  30 Dead As Overloaded Boat Capsizes In Nigeria

  The boat ferrying 100 local traders split into two after hitting a stump during a windstorm as they were returning from a market on Saturday. Thirty people drowned when the boat capsized in central Nigeria's Niger state.

• 

  Indonesia Ferry That Sank In Volcanic Lake May Have Been Found: Officials

  Indonesian authorities said Monday they think they have pinpointed the location of an overloaded ferry that sank into the depths of a volcanic lake leaving scores missing presumed dead.

• 

  Overloaded South Korean Ferry Sunken 3 Years Ago Emerges In Grey Sea

  A South Korean ferry that sank nearly three years ago, killing 304 people, most of them children on a school trip, slowly emerged from a grey sea on Thursday, a sombre reminder of a tragedy that traumatised the country.

• 

  Patna Boat Tragedy: 'Lapses By Administration Caused 24 Deaths'

  A probe into the mid-January boat tragedy in Patna that killed 24 people including children has blamed the Saran district administration and Bihar Tourism Corporation for "grave lapses" in the way the kite festival was organized on occasion of Makar Sankranti. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had promised strict action against officials found to b...

• 

  Pilot Ferrying Osama Bin Laden's Family May Have Had 'Mental Overload'

  A Jordanian pilot may have been suffering from "mental overload" when he crash-landed a plane in the UK, killing three members of Osama Bin Laden's family and himself, an inquiry has found.

• 

  Police Charge Captain Over Deadly Myanmar Ferry Sinking

  Myanmar police said Tuesday they have brought charges punishable by a long jail term against the captain of an overloaded river ferry that sank last month, killing dozens of people.

• 

  Philippine Ferry May Have Been Overloaded, Death Toll Rises to 61

  The death toll from a ferry that capsized in the central Philippines has risen to 61, the coast guard has said today, indicating that the vessel was overloaded.

• Overloading, Illegal Redesign Led to South Korea Ferry Disaster: Officials

  South Korean prosecutors said on Monday that a deadly combination of cargo overloading, illegal redesign and poor helmsmanship led to the April ferry disaster that claimed more than 300 lives, mostly schoolchildren.

• Nearly 120 Feared Drowned in Bangladesh Ferry Disaster

  Rescuers in Bangladesh searched Tuesday for the wreckage of a heavily overloaded river ferry that sank, with nearly 120 people still missing.

• Three Dead as Indonesia-Bound Boat Sinks off Malaysia

  At least three people died after an overloaded boat ferrying Indonesians home for the coming Eid al-Fitr festival sank off southern Malaysia, a maritime official said on Friday.

• South Korea Ferry Was Routinely Overloaded

  The doomed ferry Sewol exceeded its cargo limit on 246 trips - nearly every voyage it made in which it reported cargo - in the 13 months before it sank, according to documents that reveal the regulatory failures that allowed passengers by the hundreds to set off on an unsafe vessel. And it may have been more overloaded than ever on its final journe...

• South Korea Ferry Was Routinely Overloaded

  The doomed ferry Sewol exceeded its cargo limit on 246 trips - nearly every voyage it made in which it reported cargo - in the 13 months before it sank, according to documents that reveal the regulatory failures that allowed passengers by the hundreds to set off on an unsafe vessel.