About 500 passengers were on board. The wooden boat capsized Tuesday after catching fire on the Congo River in the country’s northwest, leaving at least 148 people dead and dozens missing ...

Planes serve only a limited number of cities and towns. As a result people often travel on lakes, the Congo River -- the second longest in Africa after the Nile -- and its winding tributaries, where ...

Dozens were saved following the accident on the Congo River late on Tuesday night, many of them with bad burns. The search for the missing was underway Wednesday with rescue teams supported by the ...

Hundreds of passengers were crowded onto a wooden boat on the Congo River in northwest DRC on Tuesday ... planes serve only a limited number of cities and towns. As a result, people often travel ...

Kinshasa, Apr 19 (EFE).— At least 148 people have died and 100 remain missing after a wooden riverboat caught fire and sank on the Congo River in northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

ALBAWABA - Officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo said Friday that a fire on an overloaded wooden boat on the Congo River had killed at least 148 people and left hundreds more missing.

Hundreds of passengers were crowded onto a wooden boat on the Congo River in northwest DRC on Tuesday when the blaze broke out, according to Josephine-Pacifique Lokumu, head of a delegation of ...