Mohammed Fadhel
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/ 31 March 2006

Leisure boat capsizes off Bahrain

At least 48 people died when a leisure boat with at least 150 passengers on board sank off the coast of Bahrain late on Thursday as the coast guard and the United States Navy worked frantically to rescue survivors. There were 10 South Africans on board. ”The number of survivors is 63, of which 12 were wounded, and the number of bodies that we have pulled out so far is 48,” said Colonel Yussef al-Ghatim.