{"id":16717,"date":"2014-05-06T09:40:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T09:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=16717"},"modified":"2014-05-06T09:40:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T09:40:20","slug":"one-dead-several-missing-after-congo-boat-capsizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/05\/one-dead-several-missing-after-congo-boat-capsizes\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, several missing after Congo boat capsizes"},"content":{"rendered":"
At least one person died and a dozen others were missing after a boat capsized in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a spokesman for the United Nations mission in the country said on Monday.<\/p>\n
A U.N. drone spotted the vessel capsizing on Lake Kivu and peacekeepers intervened, Lieutenant-Colonel Felix Prosper Basse, a spokesman for the UN Stabilisation Mission in the DRC, told Reuters.<\/p>\n
“A corpse was recovered and 14 people were rescued. We were told about a dozen others are still missing,” Basse said, adding that it was unclear how many people the boat had been carrying.<\/p>\n
The vessel had been travelling to Congo’s North Kivu Province from South Kivu.<\/p>\n
Accidents are common on the Great Lakes of central Africa due to overloading, lack of maintenance and lax enforcement of safety standards. In March, 107 people died when a boat carrying refugees capsized in Lake Albert, north of Lake Kivu.<\/p>\n
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Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At least one person died and a dozen others were missing after a boat capsized in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a spokesman for the United Nations mission in the country said on Monday. A U.N. drone spotted the vessel capsizing on Lake Kivu and peacekeepers intervened, Lieutenant-Colonel Felix Prosper Basse, a spokesman for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[14],"yoast_head":"\n