Divers search for bodies in Lake Malawi

Blantyre - Two police officers drowned after their patrol motor boat hit a rock and capsized on Lake Malawi, police said on Tuesday.Four other colleagues survived the accident which happened around 3am on Monday at Monkey Bay area in the prime tourist district of Mangochi, according to chief police spokesperson Willie Mwaluka.He said the marine officers were on "routine Easter patrols" of Monkey Bay, at the tip of the vast lake, which covers around a third of the impoverished southern African nation."Investigations are still under way to establish the cause of the accident," Mwaluka told AFP.Divers from the marine unit of the Malawi Army, which is headquartered at Monkey Bay, had joined the search for bodies of the police officers, Mwaluka added.
A constable at Monkey Bay police station, who identified himself as Levison Ntara, said the two appeared to have drowned as they lacked life jackets. The four survivors had been wearing jackets. - Sapa-AFP