The fault lies entirely with the Senegalese Government in my opinion .

 Why allow the ferry authorities to overload a vessel which was meant to stand any kind of storms at certain designed capacity. If any one of them is alive they should go to jail for greed or plain stupidity.

How on earth can they be so wicked as to exceed the passengers allowed ? So they can pocket the difference and share it amongst themselves . It is sad that innocent people lost their lives again as it happened in the Barrra/banjul case .

How mad can one be anymore with these wicked fools who do not value the lives of their fellow human beings.

 

I pray that some merchant ships was close by to pick some of the missing souls . Did they have a working SOS radio ??

Best regards

Habib

 

>From: Momodou Camara <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: fwd:Senegalese ferry disaster - 600 missing, 60 survivors >Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:15:47 -0500 > >DAKAR, Sept 27 (AFP) - At least 600 passengers are still missing, and 60 >survivors have been plucked from the seas after a passenger ferry carrying >hundreds of people off the west African coast sank overnight, a Senegalese >government official said Friday. > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface >at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~