Over 100 dead or missing after boat capsizes in DR Congo
Fifty-one bodies had been recovered by late Friday from the sinking during the night of Monday to Tuesday
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More than 100 people are dead or missing in the sinking of a boat on the Congo river, provincial authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Saturday.
Fifty-one bodies had been recovered by late Friday from the sinking during the night of Monday to Tuesday, and another 69 are believed to be missing, Nestor Magbado, a spokesman for the governor of the northwestern province of Mongala, told AFP. He said there were 39 survivors.
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