”The preliminary death toll is 150,” he writes on the presidentkansliets twitter account.
the Accident occurred on Monday on lake Kivu.
Delphin Mbirimbi, who lives in the area of devastation, saying that the boat came from grannprovinsen North Kivu, and that 33 people have been rescued while the 150 is missing.
carefully, and that those responsible should be punished.
Deadly båtolyckor is common in Congo-Kinshasa where the boats are substandard, security equipment, unusual and overloads are common.