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60 DEAD, OVER 200 MISSING AS A BOAT CAPSIZED IN DRC

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Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo say more than 60 people have drowned after a barge capsized and sank on the Congo River.

Three-hundred people have been rescued but possibly 200 others are unaccounted for following the accident.

Locals said the boat hit a rock, while travelling at night, which is forbidden.

The Congolese minister for humanitarian affairs, Steve Mbikayi, called for those responsible for the boat to be charged as to why a boat with over 700 people was travelling at night.

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