Around 23 bodies recovered following boat accident on Congo’s Lake Kivu

A man reacts after his family member died after a boat ferrying passengers and goods from the Minova villages sank in Lake Kivu near the Port of Kituku in Goma

GOMA (Reuters) – Around 23 dead bodies have been recovered and 40 people rescued following a boat accident on Lake Kivu, Colonel Molatelo Motau of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission in Democratic Republic of Congo said on Thursday.

(Reporting by Fiston Mahamba; Writing by Anait Miridzhanian; Editing by Bate Felix)