While imposter president Felix Tshisekedi is waging a petty and plainly stupid war against opposition leader Moïse Katumbi, Congolese are dying in droves across the country with the latest tragedy claiming over 100 lives on Lake Kivu.
If Congolese are not dying from civil war that Tshisekedi has failed to end and military massacres he is perpetrating, they are succumbing to disease outbreak such as mpox, malnutrition, and are also dying via transport tragedies due to poor roads and derelict vessels.
Yesterday was another grim moment for the DRC when videos of a boat sank over 100 Congolese as Tshisekedi focuses on fighting Katumbi for putting together a health facility and medical emergency airstrip in the village of Mulonde in the Pweto region region of east Katanga.
Although some reports indicate that 78 people have died after a ferry capsized on Lake Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just a few hundred metres from its destination, unofficial records seen by DRC News Today show the number of fatalities is over 150.
The boat was travelling from the town of Minova in South Kivu and sank as it was arriving on Goma’s shore on Thursday morning.
A video circulating online shows the boat tilting to one side and then sinking.
There were 278 passengers onboard, according to a regional governor.
“It’ll take at least three days to get the exact numbers, because not all the bodies have been found yet,” Governor Jean Jacques Purisi told Reuters news agency.
A local activist, Aaron Ashuza, who was at the scene, told the BBC he saw bodies being pulled out of the river and said the injured had been taken to hospital.
At least two children died after they were taken to hospital after the accident, according to AFP.
Speaking from his hospital bed, 51-year-old survivor Alfani Buroko Byamungu, told Reuters news agency that conditions on the water seemed “calm”.
He added: “I saw people sinking, many went under. I saw women and children sinking in the water, and I myself was on the verge of drowning, but God helped me.”
CREDIT: Additional Reporting BBC
