(3 Oct 2024)
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Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – 3 October 2024
1. Police and civilians helping a woman in distress
2. Woman crying where boat sank at the port of Kituku
3. Various of SADC (Southern Africa Development Community) and DRC soldiers checking bodies brought in from Lake Kivu
4. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Aline Mulume, wife of a boat passenger:
“I came to see my husband who had gone on a trip. He had told me that he was going to come back today, but I arrived and they told me that the boat he was in had capsized. He’d called me before and told me that the boat was capsizing and that there was already a lot of water inside. He asked me to pray for him to see if he would make it. I arrived and they told me he is dead because I don’t see him among those who were saved.”
5. People looking on as dead passengers are brought in from Lake Kivu
6. Crying woman walking away from the port
7. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Bahati Selemani, dock worker who participated in rescue:
“We saw the boat start to capsize. We noticed that the boat was very overloaded and there were also strong waves. After that, the boat started to capsize little by little. Those who were upstairs started to throw themselves into the lake, and the boat capsized directly into the lake.”
8. Ambulances transporting injured boat passengers
9. SADC soldiers at the port of Kituku
STORYLINE:
A boat carrying scores of passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday, killing at least 50 people, witnesses told The Associated Press.
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.
They said 10 people survived and were taken to the local hospital.
The boat, overloaded with passengers, sank while trying to dock just meters away from the port of Kituku.
It was going from Minova in South Kivu province to Goma, in North Kivu province.
Aline Mulume came to the port to meet her husband who was on his way back from traveling.
He had called her from the boat to ask her to pray for him as the boat was sinking.
Crying, she said she believes he is among the dead.
Bahati Selemani is a dock worker who witnessed the capsizing.
“We noticed that the boat was very overloaded and there were also strong waves. After that, the boat started to capsize little by little. Those who were upstairs started to throw themselves into the lake, and the boat capsized directly into the lake,” he said.
It was the latest deadly boat accident in the central African country, where overcrowding on vessels is often to blame.
Maritime regulations also are often not followed.
Congolese officials have often warned against overloading and vowed to punish those violating safety measures for water transportation.
But in remote areas where most passengers come from, many are unable to afford public transport for the few available roads.
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