Democratic Republic of the Congo declares mourning after 13 dead and 142 still missing from a passenger boat that sank this week on Lake Kivu
Felix Tshisekedi swears into office during an inauguration ceremony as the new president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the Palais de la Nation in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. January 24, 2019.
Thirteen people are dead and 142 still missing from a passenger boat that sank this week on Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the president said on Thursday. Deadly boat accidents are common in Congo, which has few tarred roads across its vast, forested interior and where vessels are frequently loaded well beyond their capacity.
"We are going to do everything to make sure that this type of tragedy doesn't happen again," President Felix Tshisekedi said.On his first tour of eastern Congo since taking office in January, Tshisekedi told reporters near the site of the accident in South Kivu province that 37 passengers had been rescued.The boat, a smaller type known as a pirogue, had set out from neighbouring North Kivu province on Monday and foundered on the lake near South Kivu's Kalehe territory.
In one of the worst boat disasters, an overloaded vessel capsized in the Congo River in 2010, killing 138 people.
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