AP Archive | Boat capsizes on a lake in eastern Congo, killing at least 50 people, witnesses say @APArchive | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 6 days ago.
(3 Oct 2024)
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++CLIENTS NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS FOOTAGE OF DEAD BODIES++
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Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo - 3 October 2024
1. Police and civilians helping a woman in distress
2. Woman crying where boat sank at the port of Kituku
3. Dead bodies lying on the ground after being brought in from Lake Kivu
4. Various of SADC (Southern Africa Development Community) and DRC soldiers checking bodies brought in from Lake Kivu
5. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Aline Mulume, wife of a boat passenger:
“I came to see my husband who had gone on a trip. He had told me that he was going to come back today, but I arrived and they told me that the boat he was in had capsized. He'd called me before and told me that the boat was capsizing and that there was already a lot of water inside. He asked me to pray for him to see if he would make it. I arrived and they told me he is dead because I don’t see him among those who were saved.”
6. People looking on as dead passengers are brought in from Lake Kivu
7. Soldier looking at phone in front of port
8. Crying woman walking away from the port
9. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Bahati Selemani, dock worker who participated in rescue:
“We saw the boat start to capsize. We noticed that the boat was very overloaded and there were also strong waves. After that, the boat started to capsize little by little. Those who were upstairs started to throw themselves into the lake, and the boat capsized directly into the lake.”
10. Injured passengers in beds at Kyeshero hospital
11. Boat passenger Alexis Rehema sitting on hospital bed
12. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Alexis Rehema, boat passenger:
“The boat overturned, some threw themselves into the water, they started to swim and others remained stuck in the boat. I don't remember how I was saved because I had already lost consciousness."
13. Ambulances transporting injured boat passengers
14. Nzuva Zachee looks after survivors
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Nzuva Zachee, doctor at Kyeshero hospital:
“This hospital is overwhelmed. There is also MSF (Doctors Without Borders) right here, which is also overwhelmed. The hospital is overwhelmed with just survivors. I’m worried that the morgue won’t even be capable of receiving all of the dead.”
16. SADC soldiers at the port of Kituku
STORYLINE:
A boat carrying scores of passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday, killing at least 50 people, witnesses told The Associated Press.
It was not immediately clear exactly how many people were on board or how many perished but witnesses said they saw rescue services recover at least 50 bodies from the water.
They said 10 people survived and were taken to the local hospital.
The boat, overloaded with passengers, sank while trying to dock just meters away from the port of Kituku.
It was going from Minova in South Kivu province to Goma, in North Kivu province.
Aline Mulume came to the port to meet her husband who was on his way back from traveling.
He had called her from the boat to ask her to pray for him as the boat was sinking.
Crying, she said she believes he is among the dead.
Bahati Selemani is a dock worker who witnessed the capsizing.
“We noticed that the boat was very overloaded and there were also strong waves. After that, the boat started to capsize little by little. Those who were upstairs started to throw themselves into the lake, and the boat capsized directly into the lake,” he said.
It was the latest deadly boat accident in the central African country, where overcrowding on vessels is often to blame.
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(3 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++CLIENTS NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS FOOTAGE OF DEAD BODIES++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo - 3 October 2024
1. Police and civilians helping a woman in distress
2. Woman crying where boat sank at the port of Kituku
3. Dead bodies lying on the ground after being brought in from Lake Kivu
4. Various of SADC (Southern Africa Development Community) and DRC soldiers checking bodies brought in from Lake Kivu
5. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Aline Mulume, wife of a boat passenger:
“I came to see my husband who had gone on a trip. He had told me that he was going to come back today, but I arrived and they told me that the boat he was in had capsized. He'd called me before and told me that the boat was capsizing and that there was already a lot of water inside. He asked me to pray for him to see if he would make it. I arrived and they told me he is dead because I don’t see him among those who were saved.”
6. People looking on as dead passengers are brought in from Lake Kivu
7. Soldier looking at phone in front of port
8. Crying woman walking away from the port
9. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Bahati Selemani, dock worker who participated in rescue:
“We saw the boat start to capsize. We noticed that the boat was very overloaded and there were also strong waves. After that, the boat started to capsize little by little. Those who were upstairs started to throw themselves into the lake, and the boat capsized directly into the lake.”
10. Injured passengers in beds at Kyeshero hospital
11. Boat passenger Alexis Rehema sitting on hospital bed
12. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Alexis Rehema, boat passenger:
“The boat overturned, some threw themselves into the water, they started to swim and others remained stuck in the boat. I don't remember how I was saved because I had already lost consciousness."
13. Ambulances transporting injured boat passengers
14. Nzuva Zachee looks after survivors
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Nzuva Zachee, doctor at Kyeshero hospital:
“This hospital is overwhelmed. There is also MSF (Doctors Without Borders) right here, which is also overwhelmed. The hospital is overwhelmed with just survivors. I’m worried that the morgue won’t even be capable of receiving all of the dead.”
16. SADC soldiers at the port of Kituku
STORYLINE:
A boat carrying scores of passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday, killing at least 50 people, witnesses told The Associated Press.
It was not immediately clear exactly how many people were on board or how many perished but witnesses said they saw rescue services recover at least 50 bodies from the water.
They said 10 people survived and were taken to the local hospital.
The boat, overloaded with passengers, sank while trying to dock just meters away from the port of Kituku.
It was going from Minova in South Kivu province to Goma, in North Kivu province.
Aline Mulume came to the port to meet her husband who was on his way back from traveling.
He had called her from the boat to ask her to pray for him as the boat was sinking.
Crying, she said she believes he is among the dead.
Bahati Selemani is a dock worker who witnessed the capsizing.
“We noticed that the boat was very overloaded and there were also strong waves. After that, the boat started to capsize little by little. Those who were upstairs started to throw themselves into the lake, and the boat capsized directly into the lake,” he said.
It was the latest deadly boat accident in the central African country, where overcrowding on vessels is often to blame.
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