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MV Serengeti catches fire in Zanzibar
MV Serengeti burns as firefighters on another vessel try to extinguish the inferno in Zanzibar this afternoon. (Photo by Staff Photographer)
From SUNDAY NEWS Reporter in Zanzibar, 13th March 2010 @ 11:01, Total Comments: 1, Hits: 904
PASSENGER and cargo vessel christened MV Serengeti caught fire here on this afternoon, about two hundred metres away from the Malindi Harbour, Ports authorities have confirmed.
?I saw heavy smoke coming from the ship which had anchored some distance from the harbour and heard fire fighters rushing to the scene,? said Ms Mwanaidi Ali, a student at the Public Management Institute building close to the harbour.
Mr Abdallah Mohamed, the Zanzibar Registrar of Sea Vessels and police officers confirmed the incident, saying that the vessel burned beyond repair.
He said investigations to establish the cause of the inferno were going on, but speculations linked the accident to a probable electrical fault in the vessel engine. The registrar told the 'Sunday News' that the vessel, owned by JAK Enterprises, was scheduled to travel to Pemba tonight.
Mr Ali Abdullah, a Senior Officer from the Zanzibar Fire-brigade told journalists: ?About 15 people including crew and technicians who were in the boat at the time when fire started escaped unhurt.
?They were in the vessel making some repairs. Probably that was the cause of the fire,? he suggested.
MV Serengeti which has recently been complained of poor services mainly filthiness and frequent breakdown, was first owned by Azam Marines who sold it to the JAK. MV Serengeti had only been operating between Unguja and Pemba islands
