NEWS- A boat carrying scores of passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killing at least 50 people.
It was not immediately clear exactly how many people were on board or how many perished but witnesses said they saw rescue services recover at least 50 bodies from the water and said 10 people survived and were taken to the local hospital.
A witness who did not want to be name said that the boat, overloaded with passengers, sank while trying to dock just meters away from the port of Kituku, the It was going from Minova in South Kivu province to Goma, in North Kivu province.
Local authorities have disclosed that the rescue efforts continued and the death toll remained unknown at the moment.
In February this, the majority of the 50 passengers aboard a wooden boat were presumed dead after the vessel capsized on Lake Kivu.
The governor of the province of South Kivu Jean-Jacques Purusi told a local radio station following the accident that the boat was carrying about a hundred people when it had the capacity for about thirty passengers.
It was the latest deadly boat accident in the central African country, where overcrowding on vessels is often to blame because Maritime regulations also are often not followed.
