Death toll from a boat capsizing in Congo earlier this week rises to 148, officials say

143 killed after fuel-carrying boat catches fire and capsizes in DR Congo

Hundreds of passengers were crowded onto a wooden boat on the Congo River in northwest DRC on Tuesday when the blaze broke out.

Death toll from a boat capsizing in Congo earlier this week rises to 148, officials say

The death toll from a boat fire and capsizing in Congo earlier this week rose to 148 with more than 100 people still missing, officials said Friday. About 500 passengers were on board.

At least 148 people died and dozens more are missing after a ship set on fire on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) earlier this week, authorities said on Friday. “A first group of 131 bodies was found on Wednesday and 12 others recovered on Thursday and Friday,” Joseph Lokondo, a national parliamentarian who visited the site in the province of Equateur, in the north-west of the country, told AFP Joséphine-Pacifique Lo…

“A first group of 131 bodies were found on Wednesday, and 12 more were recovered on Thursday and Friday,” said Joséphine-Pacifique Lokumu, a national deputy. A local civil society leader, Joseph Lokondo, reported “a still provisional toll of 145 dead, some burned alive, others drowned.” The fire on the motorized wooden boat carrying fuel broke out on Tuesday off the city of Mbandaka, the capital of Equateur province, Lokumu said. The boat was ca…

148 dead after boat accident on DR Congo river

More than 150 victims rescued with varying degrees of burns while several charred bodies recovered from boat, says official - Anadolu Ajansı

The fire on a wooden boat carrying fuel broke out Tuesday in Mbandaka, the capital of the province of Equator. The total number of passengers on board the ship is not known