A watercraft tipped over in Lake Kivu, within the japanese Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Thursday, with greater than 200 people aboard.
The guv of South Kivu, Jean-Jacques Purusi, was priced quote by each the Reuters data firm and the Associated Press as claiming that 78 people have been useless, after a vessel lugging 278 company tipped over and sank.
The enormously crammed vessel had truly been taking a visit from Minova in South Kivu district to Goma in North Kivu, a reasonably transient journey on the lake. AP reported that the vessel sank whereas making an attempt to dock close to the port of Kituku within the west of Goma.
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kb/msh (Reuters, AP)