Tanzania upheaval toll: 14 dead, 200 hurt

Dar Es Salaam: A 5.7-magnitude trembler that struck Tanzania, tighten to Lake Victoria and a limit with Uganda, has killed during slightest 14 people and harmed 200, internal authorities pronounced yesterday.

A organisation of 15 boys, who were secondary-school boarders in a worst-hit city of Bukoba, were believed to be among a casualties. Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa assimilated mourners during a Bukoba track after yesterday.

The city suffered widespread damage, with 270 houses demolished and electricity disrupted, a Red Cross pronounced in a statement. Bukoba’s categorical sanatorium was stretched to scarcely full ability and had singular bonds of medicine, a Red Cross said.

“Telecommunications have been disrupted and we are perplexing to get a transparent design of a repairs to hospitals and other essential infrastructure,” Andreas Sandin, Red Cross operations coordinator in East Africa and a Indian Ocean Islands, pronounced in a statement.

Significant jolt was also felt in tools of Uganda, western Kenya and Rwanda.

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