KINSHASA (Reuters) – At small 38 grouping died in the Democratic Republic of Zaire when the dish they were motion in capsized on Monday, the Red Cross said.
The dish was ferrying artefact and grouping across Lake lake to the municipality of Bukavu when it tipped over and sank at around 4 a.m. (0200 GMT), according to the rustic honcho of police, General Augustin Luzembo.
A rescue aggroup from the Red Cross recovered 38 bodies and 12 survivors from the lake, and the modification sound was expected to rise, Desire Yuma, the head of the South lake assignment of the Red Cross, told Reuters.
"The shipping assist told us there were 38 passengers listed on the manifest but the survivors feature there were more than 100 grouping on board," he said.
The United Nations operation assignment said the happening appeared to hit condemned locate amid strong winds and poor weather, but was unable to wage a modification toll.
Luzembo said the dish was motion from Minova, near the municipality of metropolis in the north, when the happening happened near the island of Ntaligeza, around 70 km (43 miles) from Bukavu.
Boats are an important fashion of transport in Congo, a vast land where the road meshwork is virtually non-existent.
Accidents are ordinary cod to poor maintenance and overloading, and modification tolls are ofttimes broad as many passengers are unable to swim.
(Reporting by Jonny Hogg and Crispin Kyalangalilwa in Bukavu; editing by Richard Valdmanis)
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