30 dead, 200 missing in Congo after boat sinks
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At least 30 people died and hundreds
were believed missing after a boat sank over the weekend in a lake in
the Democratic Republic of Congo, The Associated Press has reported.
The boat sank after hitting bad weather
on Saturday night in Lake Mai-Ndombe, nearly 300 miles northeast of the
capital, Kinshasa, The Associated Press reported. Officials said on
Sunday that more than 80 people survived but that 200 others were still
missing.
Simon Mboo Wemba, the mayor of Inongo,
the provincial capital of Mai-Ndombe Province, told The Associated Press
on Sunday that many of those aboard were teachers. He said they were
traveling to collect their salaries by boat because local roads in that
part of the central African country were so poor.
Lake Mai-Ndombe is about 100 miles east
of Yumbi, a town where violence between the Bununu and Batende ethnic
groups flared a few weeks before the country’s presidential election in
December, leaving nearly 900 people dead. Officials later discovered 15 mass graves and 43 single graves in the area.
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