One Online has confirmed that four of the five people that died today after a speed launch traveling out of Haa Dhaalu Atoll Nolhivaramfaru with ten people were all from the same family.

Sources have said that The deceased are one of the elderly teachers of the Nolhivaramfaru School, Hussain Abdulla, 55, locally known as Bodu Teacher (Head Teacher) his wife, Mariyam Moosa, 48, their only daughter, Fathimath Gureisha Abdulla, 30 and her three-year-old daughter, Eera Hassan Shifaz. The family is from Unimaage, Nolhivaramfaru. The fifth is 51-year-old Aishath Ali, a neighbor of the Teacher.

The Hanimaadhoo Health Center told One Online that the other five people taken to the hospital following the incident are recovering.