モザンビーク：ボート転覆で90名ほど死亡（2）

　先に10日にメモしたモザンビーク：ボート転覆で90名ほど死亡の記事の続きがあった。

　生き残りはしたが家族17名を失った47歳女性。

BBC Mozambique ferry disaster: 'I survived - but lost 17 of my family' 1 day ago
By Essimela Ibrahim & Jose Tembe

　別に岩に乗り上げたり大波が来たわけでもなく、突如沈み始めたらしい。

「"I don't know how I managed to escape - I can't swim," says Muaziza Ambaraje.

She was on board as Mozambique's worst sea disaster in recent memory unfolded on Monday.

The 47-year-old is a regular on the makeshift ferry between Lungá, where she was born, and Mozambique Island where she lives.

"No wave took us by surprise, we didn't hit any rocks, and the wood didn't come loose," she recalls.

"Water got into the boat because it was overcrowded - lots of people panicked and started to jump into the sea."」

「Her mother, father, grandmother, nieces and nephews all died, says Ms Ambaraje. She can't think of any reason she was spared other than God's mercy.」

　父も母も祖母も甥も姪もみな沈み―ああ、うん、その、もう…。

「They had been on their way to visit Mozambique Island's popular weekly market ahead of Eid, says Ms Ambaraje, in what was meant to be a time of celebration in this Muslim-majority part of the country.」

　お祭りに出かけただけのことなのよねえ…。それが一家全滅の惨事。

　死者数については、中央政府的には98名。地方自治体的には115名。

「A local official who spoke to the BBC said 115 people had died, significantly higher than the 98 reported by central government.」

　…中央政府の能力が足りてない、というのも一面の事実だろう。島と本土とをつなぐ、もうちょいよい手段―最も宜しい手としては橋―の構築が望まれるわけだが、なんともなっていない。というか、旅客船の運用について規制を発して、それを運用させる強制力があればよいわけだが。