/ 5 April 1999

SCORES DIE IN FERRY DISASTER

THIRTY NINE bodies have been recovered from a ferry that sunk off the coast of south east Nigeria in a storm late on Thursday night. Some 300 passengers were aboard. A number of survivors who swam to safety on a sandbank were rescued on Saturday, but most passengers were trapped inside the boat as it sank. It is unlikely that a complete list of victims will ever be drawn up.