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Fourteen Die as Boat With Migrants Breaks Down Off Tanzania's Mafia Island - Reports

NAMPA / Sputnik
2026-07-25
MOSCOW, July 25 (RIA Novosti) - A boat carrying migrants broke down en route to the French overseas region of Mayotte, with 14 people killed and another 22 rescued off the coast of Tanzania's Mafia Island, the Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, citing the island's district commissioner, Aziza Mangosongo. The boat carrying citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and the Comoros ran into a storm, and its engine broke down, t......
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