{"id":1120,"date":"2026-08-13T03:53:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2026-08-13T03:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:53:44","slug":"ferry-overturns-in-zimbabwe-lake-killing-at-least-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"Ferry overturns in Zimbabwe lake killing at least 44"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-133195971,imgsize-42492,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/zimbabwe-ferry-capsizes.jpg\" alt=\"Ferry overturns in Zimbabwe lake killing at least 44\" title=\"In this image taken from a video people are rescued from an overloaded ferry that capsized on Zimbabwe's Lake Kariba on Tuesday\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"In this image taken from a video people are rescued from an overloaded ferry that capsized on Zimbabwe's Lake Kariba on Tuesday\">In this image taken from a video people are rescued from an overloaded ferry that capsized on Zimbabwe&#8217;s Lake Kariba on Tuesday<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Search and rescue operations continued Wednesday after a govt passenger ferry capsized on Zimbabwe&#8217;s Lake Kariba, claiming at least 44 lives, authorities said. A witness said that after the ferry sank in rough weather Tuesday, bodies could be seen in the water as rescuers tried to reach the vessel, which was overturned.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>Passengers had pleaded with the driver to turn back in the rough waters, local media quoted a survivor as saying. The civil protection unit said overnight that 77 people had been rescued. The vessel transports people between the northern town of Kariba and islands and fishing villages around the vast stretch of water, the largest man-made lake in the world. It provided a vital link for villagers and traders from rural areas to the Kariba commercial hub.<!-- --> AFP<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/rest-of-world\/ferry-overturns-in-zimbabwe-lake-killing-at-least-44\/articleshow\/133195942.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this image taken from a video people are rescued from an overloaded ferry that capsized on Zimbabwe&rsquo;s Lake Kariba on Tuesday Search and rescue operations continued Wednesday after a govt passenger ferry capsized on Zimbabwe&rsquo;s Lake Kariba, claiming at least 44 lives, authorities said. A witness said that after the ferry sank in rough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}