Ferry capsizes off Tanzania, nearly 200 dead

Nearly 200 people drowned when an overloaded ferry capsized off east Africa as it sailed from Zanzibar to Pemba island, police said on Saturday. Fishing boats, tour operators and diving instructors spent the night scouring the sea off the coast of Tanzania looking for survivors, many clinging to strewn cargo. One photo showed two men and a child floating on a mattress, clinging to a fridge. Zanzibar police spokesman Mohamed Mhina told Reuters 192 bodies had been recovered and 606 passengers rescued from the Indian Ocean so far. "There is a possibility that more bodies still remain at sea. Rescue workers are still searching for survivors and retrieving bodies," he said. Two tug boats docked at Zanzibar's port, one carrying 17 bodies and another with 15 bodies, many of them children.