More
than two hundred people were feared missing after a boat sank in Democratic
Republic of Congo's waters on Lake Tanganyika on Thursday night, a senior
Tanzanian official said on Sunday.
Amid
what it said were conflicting reports of the death toll, the Congolese
government said in a statement read on national television on Sunday that it
had sent a mission led by Transport Minister Kalumba Mwana Ngongo to the scene
of the accident, some 90 km (55 miles) south of the town of Kalemie.
U.N.
radio in Congo, Radio Okapi, said on Friday that at least 26 people had died
and authorities had rescued 221 people after the boat sank in the vast lake.
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