Kisangani Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/kisangani/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 25 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Kisangani Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/kisangani/ 32 32 Congo River boat accident sparks rioting https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/congo-river-boat-accident-sparks-rioting/ Thu, 25 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/congo-river-boat-accident-sparks-rioting/ Angry youths have gone on the rampage after at least 30 people died in a boating accident in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The rioters set fire to government buildings near the provincial capital of Kisangani. Congolese officials say there were 105 survivors from the boat accident. They pulled up the bodies of at […]

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]]> Angry youths have gone on the rampage after at least 30 people died in a boating accident in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The rioters set fire to government buildings near the provincial capital of Kisangani.

Congolese officials say there were 105 survivors from the boat accident.

They pulled up the bodies of at least 30 people.

Details of the sinking on Monday have taken days to reach the capital Kinshasa.

It’s understood the overcrowded boat struck a rock and upended on the Congo River.

The boat did not have a passenger manifest so it may never be known exactly how many people died.

Witnesses say they believed more than 200 people were aboard along with tons of merchandise.

The accident comes less than two weeks after a boat sank on Lake Tanganyika in Katanga province that left at least 130 dead.

 

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