24 killed in DRC boat capsize
A fishing boat capsized in the Democratic Republic of Congo's west, killing at least 24 people, says government spokesman Lamber Mende.
"Twenty-four people died in a capsize on the Ruki river in (western) Equateur province," on Sunday, he said referring to a tributary of the Congo river, and added that the boat was carrying "between 24 and 30 people".
Mende said another boat accident occurred a day earlier in the central Kasai-Occidental province and that 24 people had managed to swim to safety.
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