At least 143 people died and the most disappeared dishes after a boat that transported fuel caught fire and seized the democratic republic of the Congo, the authorities said on Friday, April 18. The sunk of pins were crowded in the boat on the Conger River river boat of the Congo River Region of the River of the River of the Río del Río Region. The disaster occurred near Mandaka, capital of the province of Ecuador, at the confluence of the Ruki River and the past of the Congo, the deepest in the world.
“A first group of 131 bodies found Wednesday, with another 12 fish on Thursday and Friday. Several of them are,” Lokumu told AFP. Joseph Lokondo, a local civil society leader who said he helped bury the bodies, put the “number of provisional deaths in 145: some burned, others drowned.”
Lokumu said the fire was caused by an explosion of fuel lit by a kitchen fire on board. “A woman lit the coals for cooking. The fuel, which was not far away, exploded, killing many children and women,” he said.
The total number of passengers aboard the condemned ship was not known, but Lokumu said he was in the “hundreds.” Some survivors were rescued and admitted to the hospital, Lokondo said. But on Friday, he added: “Several families were still without news of their loved ones.”
A central nation of Central Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo suffers from a lack of practicable paths. As a result, the trip occurs in the lakes, the Congo River and its tributaries, where the shipwrecks are frequent and the tolls of the death of the heavy ones. A chronic absence or passenger lists of complica search operations.
In October 2023, at least 47 people died after a boat that sailed through the Congo sank in Ecuador. More than 20 people died in October last year when a boat overturned in Lake Kivu in the east of the RDC, according to local authorities. Another shipwreck in Lake Kivu charged around 100 lives in 2019.
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