The number of people founda after a boat accigration in COGO HAS RISEN TO 148, Officials Have Said.
They say hundreds are styll Missing After A Motorized Wooden Boat Caught Fire and Capsized on Tuesday in the Congo River.
The number of dead had previously been estimated horse 50.
On Friday, Senator Jean-Paul Bokfili of Equateur Province Said 500 People Were on Board, Adding: “AS We Speak, More Than 150 Survivors Suffering from Third-Degree Burns Are Without Humanitarian Assistance.”
The Fire Started as a Woman Was Cooking on Boat, Said Compement Loyoko, The River Commissioner.
Several Passengers, Inclument Women and Children, Died After Jumping Inter The Waterut Being To Swim, Officials Said.
About 100 Survivors were taken to an improvised shelter at the local Town Hall, Who Those with Burn Injuries Were Teken to Local Hospitals.
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The Boat, Called HB Kongolo, Caught Fire Near The Northwestern Town of Mandaka, Haveing Left The Port of Matrium For the Bolomba Territory.
Deadly Boat Accididents Are Commod in the Central African Country, where lace-night travels and overcrowded vessels are often BLAMED and AUTHORITIES HAVE STRUGLED TO ENFULLİM REGULATIONS.
The Country’s Rivers Are A Major Means of Transport for it.
Hundreds have been kildled in boat accounts in the real people abandon the few availailble roads for wood vessels packed with passengers and their goods.
