37 dead in another boat sinking in DR Congo

Thirty-seven bodies have been recovered after another boat sinking in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Tuesday, a week after a vessel capsized with nearly 130 people on board. Sixteen survivers were found near the spot where the boat sunk on a river in the country's east on April 9, acting governor Papy Omeonga Tchopa of Maniema province told AFP on Tuesday.
"We found and buried 37 bodies." He said the motorised boat capsized near the village of Katalama, 120 kilometers (74 miles) from the provincial capital Kindu on the Kindu-Kibombo-Kasongo part of the river - a stretch that officially is not navigable.