President Samia Suluhu Hassan
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By Mara Online News Writer
President Samia Suluhu Hassan yesterday donated 30 million shillings as condolence to the bereaved families of six children who died on Saturday while swimming in an irrigation dam in Rorya district, Mara region.
The six children - three of the same family - were pupils at Ochuna primary school. Eyewitnesses at the scene of the accident said while swimming the children were stuck in mud and failed to free themselves.
Rorya District Commissioner Juma Chikoka handed over the president’s donation to the bereaved families, expressing the national leader’s sadness at the demise of the children.
Meanwhile, eight people are reported to have died while others have been injured following a grisly accident in which the vehicle, they were travelling in overturned yesterday.
Reports said the dead and the injured were travelling from Bunda district to the neighbouring Serengeti district.
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