Seven health workers die on Tanzania lake

Seven health workers were killed when heavy winds capsized their boat on Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania on Friday, the president's office said.

The group were travelling across the lake to provide medical care in the village of Kagunga on the Tanzania–Burundi border when their boat sank, the office of President Samia Suluhu Hassan said in a statement.

Fourteen others were rescued and were receiving treatment at a nearby hospital, while rescue teams were still looking for two missing people from the boat.

In a separate incident, a fishermen was killed and two others injured when their canoe was struck by lightning on the same lake, the statement added.

Hassan expressed her "heartfelt condolences".

East Africa has experienced major storms in recent days, with at least 80 killed in floods and landslides in southern Ethiopia, and more than 60 killed by flooding in Kenya.