Thirty one out of the 42 people that were feared dead after their boat capsized on Lake Mweru in Luapula Province are alive.
Police Spokesperson Ndandula Siamana confirmed this to ZNBC news in Lusaka Friday evening.
Ms. Siamana said some of the survivors were found on top of the capsized boat, while the rest managed to swim into neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo because it is nearer than the Zambian side.
Meanwhile, three bodies have been retrieved from Lake Mweru following the accident.
Ms. Siamana said that eight people are, however, missing and believed to be trapped underneath the capsized boat.
Forty two people were fishing on the lake, when the boat capsized.
[ ZNBC ]
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Siamana get facts before you open you mouth you misinforming the nation and how can pipo be fishing on top of a cAPsized boat rubish
Ndandula Siamana, how did pipo swim up to Congo DR side of border was it by witch crasft or not . It lookS like after the boat capsized it drifted as a result of wind.
Too many people to fish on one boat, there is no truth in this story
Ba kapokola !!! dalu! dalu! dalu! live amunition, bad reporting etc, iwe nkinga siamazyu kobako serious. Watusampuzya!!!!
Were these people on a cruise ship or fishing boat? Forty two people in a single boat fishing?! Incredible!!!!
This story is fishy, yesterday they said ati 8 people managed to swim to DR Congo and today they are the 8 missing people and the 31 feared dead are alive. Zambian journalism still in the stone age.
The Truth is that these people were not fishing. The Boat is one of the illegal Transport Vessel that transports people accross to Congo. The Boat was full of smaggle Meal Mill and Salt. Remember these mass deaths on Lake Mweru in Nchelenge are common and they all involve transport vessels. They are using the word Fishing because they know that Water Transport on lake Mweru is one of the campaign issues which the current MMD GRZ has feld to fullfill. They sent a rotten Vessel that was constructed by one White Fisherman in Siavonga which reterally was a waste of Task payers money as this Boat has feld to operate as it developed technical faults from day one. FISHING YANSHI? BUFI BWABUTA TUTU.
BLOGER FROM NCHELENGE.
but ba # 1 ichisungu nachipita sure revise the passege. Chuundu #6 thx for that seems the issue than the passege by LT
as I said before. Fishermen or anyone else going on the water for that matter must be mandated to have life jackets. Ferry operators and fishing boats all need to be equipped with life preservers. It is very simple.
Iyi story niyaboza Let the real journalists come out now and give us the true story
Zambian Journalists reporting is way, way below standard! They leave you with more questions than answers. Which Journalism School do the graduate from?
Ba ZNBC baliba dull sana. This story is so inacurate and incomplete, it is embarrassing. Fourty two people on one boat fishing? What type of a boat was it? A large trawler?
I even recall Post Boat and some other boats which were commissioned by some lady minister a couple of yes back. I have seen the vessels on Tanganyika used for smuggling mealie meal out and smuggling in hardware items plus Somalians, Burundis and Rwandis and other items from East Africa . . . They also carry over
Over 50 people.
ONLY PEOPLE IN NCHELENGE CAN BETTER EXPLAIN THIS ONE BANE