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14 dead, at least 150 missing after boat capsizes in Nigeria

  • An overloaded boat returning from an Islamic festival capsized in northwestern Nigeria, leaving more than 100 people, mostly women and children, missing, according to authorities.
  • The boat, with a capacity of 100, had about 300 passengers onboard when it overturned in Niger state's Mokwa district on Monday night.
  • So far, rescue workers have recovered 11 bodies and rescued 150 people, while the search for additional survivors continues.
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In many places in the Democratic Republic of Congo, people can only travel long distances by ship. But the journey is often dangerous. In Goma, a ferry sinks shortly before docking. Several hundred people are believed to have died when a ship sank in Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, not far from the port of Goma. After initial reports of more than 450 passengers on board the ferry to Goma, official Venant Rugusha Descartes spoke in…

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Boat capsizes on Congo lake, killing at least 50 people, witnesses say

Not immediately clear exactly how many people on board, or how many perished

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At least three hundred missing. This is the provisional figure for the last sailing tragedy in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which occurred once again in the waters of Lake Kivu. This morning the MV/Merdi boat had departed from Minova in the direction of Goma. It was overloaded: the official figures speak of three hundred passengers, but according to the testimonies of some survivors, there were at least five hundred people on board and a lo…

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At least 50 people were killed in a boat accident on Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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At least 60 dead in Nigeria boat accident, official says

At least 60 people were killed after a boat carrying mostly women and children returning from a religious festival in Nigeria's northern Niger state capsized this week, a local official said.

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