dozens feared dead as boat capsized on the Red Sea
14 August, 2011
Khartoum, Aug. (sudanow.info.sd)- Dozens of illegal immigrants apparently heading for Saudi Arabia are feared dead, when a wooden boat carrying over a hundred persons capsized on the Red Sea water, leaving many victims to the whims of the ferocious sharks in the area.
Sudanese police and army have picked out 56 persons while only seven bodies were retrieved when a Yemeni boat they were using capsized offshore, about 25 kms from the Sudanese historic city of Sawakin, in what appears to be smuggling of human to Saudi Arabia via the Sudan, the official Sudan news agency reporting from Portusdan, Sudan's sea port, said on Sunday .
Commissioner of Sawakin locality, Mahmud |Mohamed Mahmud, said the boat was carrying 116 persons mostly from Chad and Ethiopia and persons from other African countries. He said rescue teams are still mobbing the areas in search for survivals.
The area is known to be home to the ferocious shark which in previous incident killed many of the persons who managed to get off a boat which capsized in a similar venture.
About two months ago a similar incident occurred on the red sea not far from the Sudanese sea shore, claiming the lives of over 190 persons, many of the bodies found later were dismembered by the man eater sharks, widely swarming the area there.
Most of the illegal immigrants hail from impoverished areas from inland Africa seeking better living conditions in the oil rich countries or seeking to get a glimpse of the holy sites in Saudi Arabia.
The Sudanese official was quotes as saying those captured include some of smugglers who, he said, would be brought to justice.
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