Around 30 bodies have since been discovered.
Emergency services were called to the scene in Mbandaka on Friday At least 30 people have drowned and 167 are missing after a boat capsized on the Congo river. The incident happened on Friday in Mbandaka, in the north west of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a provincial minister said on Sunday. Didier Mbula, provincial health minister for Equateur Province, said that 189 people have been rescued and that the search is still going on.
2million people living in the area ‘We think that the toll could climb because we have just removed the 30th corpse.’ Deadly boat accidents are frequent in Congolese waters, where vessels are frequently loaded well beyond their capacity. The country has few tarred roads across its vast, forested territory, and travel by river is common. The locally made boat that capsized near the town of Mbandaka was overloaded, carrying more than 300 people, and it was sailing at night, Mbula said.
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