At least 25 people died this Tuesday in the shipwreck of a boat in the territory of Inongo, capital of the Mai-Ndombe province, in western Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to authorities.
The commissioner of the Inongo River, David Kalemba, explained in statements collected by the ACP news agency that The sinking was due to “the overload at ceiling level”, according to a provisional death toll, since there are dozens of people missing.
This shipwreck is the fourth recorded this year in the province of Mai-Ndombe, a region that depends on river transport. Most recently, nearly 80 people drowned in October when another overloaded boat sank in Lake Kivu in the east of the country.
