At least 15 people died and 27 remained missing after a passenger ferry capsized on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba on Tuesday. (@zoleka_zw)At least 15 people died and 27 remained missing after a passenger ferry capsized on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba on Tuesday, while 77 people were rescued, authorities said.Questions over possible overcrowding and incomplete passenger records have emerged as authorities work to establish how many people were actually aboard the vessel when it overturned. Zimbabwe’s state broadcaster ZBC showed rescue boats operating on the lake, while a helicopter was also deployed. Two men died in November 2024 after a small boat carrying three people capsized during a storm. In March 2025, another accident involving a fishing vessel left one person feared dead.Local authorities have repeatedly urged boat users to avoid overloading and exercise caution during poor weather.Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority describes Lake Kariba as the world’s largest man-made lake by volume.