Thirty-seven bodies have been recovered after another boat sinking in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Tuesday, a week after a vessel capsized with nearly 130 people on board.
Sixteen survivors were found near the spot where the boat sunk on a river in the country’s east on April 9, acting governor Papy Omeonga Tchopa of Maniema province toldHe said the motorised boat capsized near the village of Katalama, 120 kilometres from the provincial capital Kindu on the Kindu-Kibombo-Kasongo part of the river — a stretch that officially is not navigable.
Exactly a week earlier, a boat went down on Lake Kivu with some 130 people on board. Dozens are still officially missing.
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