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36 people missing after boat sinks in Congo river: DRC police
KINSHASA, Sept 15, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Thirty-six people are missing after a
boat sank in the Congo river on the outskirts of Kinshasa, DR Congo police
said on Sunday.
Seventy-six people survived after the vessel went down overnight on the
outskirts of the capital, the police wrote on Twitter.
“The cause of the accident is not yet known,” police spokesperson Colonel
Pierrot-Rombaut Mwanamputu told AFP.
BSS/AFP/SSS/1811 hrs