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WORLD NEWS Monday 7 noveMber 2022

Tanzania: Small plane crashes into Lake Victoria, 19 dead

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — which was headed to Bu-
A small passenger plane koba Airport, mostly sub-
crashed Sunday morning merged in the lake. Preci-
into Lake Victoria on ap- sion Air is a Tanzanian air-
proach to an airport in Tan- line company.
zania, and the country’s “We have managed to
prime minister says 19 peo- save quite a number of
ple on board were killed. people,” Kagera province
Prime Minister Kassim Ma- police commander William
jaliwa gave the new death Mwampaghale told jour-
toll, up from three. Earlier, nalists. “When the aircraft
local authorities said 26 of was about 100 meters (328
those on the Precision Air feet) midair, it encoun-
flight from the coastal city tered problems and bad Rescuers in boats are seen around the tail fin of a crashed
of Dar es Salaam were res- weather. It was raining and Precision Air passenger aircraft on the shores of Lake Victoria
in Bukoba, in western Tanzania Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022. The small
cued and taken to a hos- the plane plunged into the passenger plane crashed Sunday morning into Lake Victoria
pital. It was not clear if any water,” he said. near Bukoba airport and the company Precision Air said the
of those who were rescued Mwampaghale said flight was coming from the coastal city of Dar es Salaam, though
died at the hospital. the rescue efforts were it was not immediately clear how many people were on board.
Photos showed the plane, continuing.q Associated Press

Kyiv prepares for a winter with no heat, water or power

Russian forces are prepar- ists have controlled part
ing for a Ukrainian counter- of Donetsk for nearly eight
offensive to seize back the years before Russia invad-
southern city of Kherson, ed Ukraine in late February.
which was captured during Protecting the separatists'
the early days of the inva- self-proclaimed republic
sion. In September, Russia il- there was one of Russian
legally annexed Kherson as President Vladimir Putin's
well as three other regions justifications for the inva-
of Ukraine and subsequent- sion, and his troops have
ly declared martial law in spent months trying to cap-
the four provinces. ture the entire province.
The Kremlin-installed ad- While Russia's "greatest bru-
ministration in Kherson al- tality" was focused in the
ready has moved tens of Donetsk region, "constant
Vadym Zherdetsky stands in the remains of his house destroyed thousands of civilians out of fighting" continued else-
by fighting, in the village of Moshun, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, the city. where along the front line
Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Russia has been "occupy- that stretches more than
two missiles struck Zherdetsky's home in the tiny village of ing and evacuating" Kher- 1,000 kilometers (620 miles),
Moschun on the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv, ripping the roof off
and nearly killing four of his family members. son simultaneously, trying Ukrainian President Volody-
Associated press to convince Ukrainians that myr Zelenskyy said in his
they're leaving when in fact nightly video address.
By SAM MEDNICK tomyr, Sumy, Kharkiv and they're digging in, Nataliya Between Saturday and
Associated Press Poltava regions, Ukraine's Humenyuk, a spokeswom- Sunday, Russia's launched
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The state-owned energy oper- an for Ukraine's Southern four missiles and 19 airstrikes
mayor of Kyiv, Ukraine's ator, Ukrenergo, said. Forces, told state television. hitting more than 35 vil-
capital, is warning residents Kyiv plans to deploy about Russian forces are also dig- lages in nine regions, from
that they must prepare for a 1,000 heating points, but ging in in a fiercely contest- Chernihiv and Kharkiv in the
the worst this winter if Rus- noted that this may not be ed region in the east, wors- northeast to Kherson and
sia keeps striking the coun- enough for a city of 3 mil- ening the already tough Mykolaiv in the south, ac-
try's energy infrastructure lion people. conditions for residents and cording to the president's
— and that means having As Russia intensifies its at- the defending Ukrainian office. The strikes killed two
no electricity, water or heat tacks on the capital, Ukrai- army following Moscow's il- people and wounded six,
in the freezing cold cannot nian forces are pushing legal annexation and dec- the office said.
be ruled out. forward in the south. Resi- laration of martial law in In the Donetsk city of
Russia has focused on strik- dents of Ukraine's Russian- Donetsk province. Bakhmut, 15,000 remain-
ing Ukraine's energy in- occupied city of Kherson The attacks have almost ing residents were living
frastructure over the last received warning messag- completely destroyed the under daily shelling and
month, causing power es on their phones urging power plants that serve without water or power,
shortages and rolling out- them to evacuate as soon the city of Bakhmut and according to local media.
ages across the country. as possible, Ukraine's mili- the nearby town of Sole- The city has been under
Kyiv was scheduled to tary said Sunday. Russian dar, said Pavlo Kyrylenko, attack for months, but the
have hourly rotating black- soldiers warned civilians the region's Ukrainian gov- bombardment picked up
outs Sunday in parts of the that Ukraine's army was ernor, said. Shelling killed after Russian forces expe-
city and the surrounding re- preparing for a massive one civilian and wounded rienced setbacks during
gion. Rolling blackouts also attack and told people three, he reported late Sat- Ukrainian counteroffensives
were planned in the nearby to leave for the city's right urday. in the Kharkiv and Kherson
Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zhy- bank immediately. Moscow-backed separat- regions.q