SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES GRIEF AT SENEGAL FERRY DISASTER

United Nations

SG/SM/8409-AFR/490

1 October 2002

01/10/2002

Press Release
SG/SM/8409
AFR/490

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES GRIEF AT SENEGAL FERRY DISASTER

This statement was issued on 28 September by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General is deeply saddened by the news that hundreds of people are feared drowned after a Senegalese passenger ferry capsized off the coast of the Gambia in a violent storm. He expresses his heartfelt condolences to the Government, families and friends of the victims.

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