Dozens of people are apshowd to have died in a boat accident in the Democratic Reaccessible of Congo.
Thursday’s incident was the postponecessitatest boat accident in the central African country, where overcrowding is normally accincluded.
Witnesses have telderly The Associated Press a least 50 people died as the boat capsized on Lake Kivu, in the east of the country, with another 10 apshown to hospital.
According to Colonel Mopostponecessitatelo Motau of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission, about 23 bodies have been recovered and 40 people saved.
Reuters novels agency increates a local migration authority shelp about 45 males and 35 females were sign uped as passengers, although those are not definitive figures.
Several survivors have telderly Reuters they spotted proximately 200 people on board, while AP increates witnesses saying that the boat was overloaded with passengers and sank while trying to dock fair metres from the port of Kituku.
Reuters also increates it has seen a video – which it has not verified – shotriumphg the two-deck boat tilting sideways before sinking in quiet waters.
In the summer, 80 passengers died when an overloaded boat sank proximate the capital Kinshasa.
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About 150 people died in April 2019, when a boat sank in Lake Kivu.
Such incidents are common in DR Congo, which has restrictcessitate roads outside of convey inant towns and where boats are normally loaded well beyond their capacity.
