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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bert Wilkinson

Guyana appoints experts tasked with investigating ferry capsizing that killed dozens

Guyana Capsized Ferry - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Guyana’s government on Sunday appointed a group of international experts to investigate the recent sinking of a state ferry that killed dozens of passengers in the country’s worst maritime disaster on record.

The 87-year-old MV Barima capsized in Atlantic waters on June 18 after it departed the capital, Georgetown, en route to Port Kaituma, an Indigenous community near Venezuela.

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