More than 100 dead or missing after vessel capsizes in DR Congo


Updated 1 hour ago · Published on 9 Oct 2021 8:20PM ·

MORE than 100 people are believed dead or missing in the sinking of a makeshift vessel on the Congo river, provincial authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo said today.

Fifty-one bodies had been recovered by late yesterday from the sinking during the night of Monday to Tuesday, and another 69 are believed to be missing, Nestor Magbado, a spokesman for the governor of the northwestern province of Mongala, told AFP.


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