KAMPALA, Uganda — Hundreds of solemn people watched Friday as body after body was pulled from a capsized ferry that Tanzanian authorities said was badly overcrowded and upended in the final stretch before reaching shore. The death toll was above 130 but horrified witnesses feared that would rise as a second day of searching neared an end.

“This is a great disaster for our nation,” President John Magufuli said. He announced four days of national mourning and urged calm in the East African country with a history of deadly maritime disasters. And he ordered arrests of all responsible as a criminal investigation began.

In a televised address, the president said the ferry captain already had been detained after leaving the steering to someone who wasn’t properly trained, The Citizen newspaper reported.

The MV Nyerere’s capacity was 101 people but the ferry had been overloaded when it capsized Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

At least 40 people had been rescued, he said, but the number on Friday barely rose. Dozens of security forces and volunteers wearing gloves and face masks had resumed work at daybreak after suspending efforts overnight.

It was obvious that more bodies were trapped in the overturned ferry, the president said, according to The Citizen report.

Tanzanian ferries often carry hundreds of passengers and are overcrowded, and shifts in weight as people move to disembark can become deadly. Images from the scene showed the ferry’s exposed underside not far from shore.

Police: 5 stabbed — including newborns — at NYC nursery

NEW YORK — A woman stabbed five people — including three newborn babies — and then slashed her wrist early Friday inside a New York City home that was apparently being used as an unlicensed neighborhood nursery for new mothers and their children, authorities said.

All of the victims in the attack were hospitalized but expected to survive.

The 52-year-old suspect — an employee at the nursery — was taken into police custody and was being treated for her wounds and undergoing a psychiatric examination, authorities said.

Police responding to a 911 call discovered a 3-day-old girl and a 1-month-old girl who had been stabbed in the abdomen, and a 20-day-old girl with cuts on her ear, chin and lip. The father of one of the children and a woman who worked there were also stabbed.

PayPal is the latest platform to ditch Alex Jones, Infowars

SAN FRANCISCO — People won’t be able use PayPal anymore to buy fluoride-free toothpaste or a bottle of The Real Red Pill Plus from conspiracy promulgator Alex Jones.

The digital payments company is the latest platform to ditch Jones and his Infowars site, which along with conspiracy theories peddles “I Stand With Trump” T-shirts, Wake Up America coffee and dietary supplements.

PayPal said Friday it cut ties with Infowars after a review found instances of it promoting “hate and discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions.”

Infowars said the move was aimed at sabotaging the site just weeks before the midterm elections. Twitter has banned Jones and Infowars; Facebook has also banned Infowars, while YouTube and Apple have limited Jones.

Japan space rovers lowered

to asteroid to collect data

TOKYO — A Japanese spacecraft released two small rovers on an asteroid Friday in a mission that could provide clues to the origin of the solar system.

The Japan Space Exploration Agency said the two Minerva-II-1 rovers were lowered from the unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa2 to the asteroid Ryugu, about 170 million miles from Earth, in June.

The agency said confirmation of the robots’ safe touchdown has to wait until it receives data from them on Saturday.

Hayabusa2 approached as close as 180 feet from the asteroid to lower the rovers.

The two rovers, which move by “hopping” because the asteroid’s weak gravity makes rolling difficult, are to capture images of the surface and measure temperatures before a larger rover and a lander are released later.

Hotplates, heaters to be doled out after gas blasts

LAWRENCE, Mass. — Hotplates and space heaters will be distributed to thousands of Massachusetts residents who were left without natural gas following a series of gas explosions and fires, officials announced Friday.

The parent company of Columbia Gas, meanwhile, set a Nov. 19 deadline by which it expects to restore gas to all of the roughly 8,600 affected customers, with crews working to replace 48 miles of natural gas pipeline. The Sept. 13 disaster killed one person, injured about 25 others and damaged or destroyed dozens of homes and businesses in three communities.

Most residents of Lawrence, Andover and North Andover who were forced to flee their homes have been allowed to return, but thousands remain without natural gas service needed for cooking and to heat their homes.

Taiwan cops nab printable gun promoter on sex charge

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Authorities in Taiwan arrested the owner of a Texas company that sells plans to make untraceable 3D-printed guns who is wanted in the U.S. over an accusation that he had sex with an underage girl and paid her $500 afterward, official media reported.

The Central News Agency said Taiwanese police found and arrested Cody Wilson in a hotel in Taipei on Friday evening.

The Taiwanese news agency said the island’s immigration department would make arrangements for Wilson to return to the U.S. as soon as possible.

Austin police Cmdr. Troy Officer said Wednesday that before Wilson flew to Taiwan, a friend of the 16-year-old girl had told him that police were investigating the accusation that he had sex with the youth last month at an Austin hotel.

In Australia: Tourists were warned to keep out of the water in the Whitsunday Islands on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef after two swimmers were critically hurt in shark attacks on consecutive days. A 46-year-old woman was mauled Wednesday and a 12-year-old girl was attacked Thursday in Cid Harbor.

In Britain: A British fashion model has been sentenced to at least 25 years in prison for murdering a more successful rival during a fight over a love interest.

George Koh, 24, was convicted of stabbing Harry Uzoka, 25, through the heart in January after Koh challenged him to a fight.