Kinshasa, April 18, 2025 (AFP) - At least 143 dead in DR Congo boat fire: officials

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At least 143 people died and dozens more were missing after a boat carrying fuel caught fire on the Congo River in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Friday. "A first group of 131 bodies were found on Wednesday, with a further 12 fished out on Thursday and Friday. Several of them are charred," Josephine-Pacifique Lokumu, head of a delegation of national deputies from the region, told AFP. A local civil society leade......

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