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Dozens killed as boat capsizes in Djibouti
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-04-07 14:08
![Rescue boats and people search for survivors after a Djibouti-flagged vessel sank off the coast of Djibouti April 6, 2006. The boat carrying some 250 people on an annual religious pilgrimage sank on Thursday,killing at least 69 in one of the country's worst recent tragedies, authorities said. The wooden boat laden with construction materials and three times the passengers it was built for sank just 100 metres from the port in Djibouti, a tiny Red Sea state of 300,000, witnesses said. Picture taken April 6, 2006. [Reuters]](xin_560403071416991116828.jpg)
Rescue boats and people search for survivors after a
Djibouti-flagged vessel sank off the coast of Djibouti April 6, 2006. The boat
carrying some 250 people on an annual religious pilgrimage sank on
Thursday,killing at least 69 in one of the country's worst recent tragedies,
authorities said. The wooden boat laden with construction materials and three
times the passengers it was built for sank just 100 metres from the port in
Djibouti, a tiny Red Sea state of 300,000, witnesses said. Picture taken April
6, 2006. [Reuters]
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