At least 193 was killed in two separate accidents in boats in the northwest of Dr. Congo Transport news

Rescue teams looked for missing persons after the deadly accidents in Equateur County this week.

The authorities and government media said that two separate accidents of boats this week in the northwest of the Republic of the Congo (DRC) killed at least 193 people and left dozens of missing.

The incidents occurred on Wednesday and Thursday, about 150 km (93 miles) in Equateur.

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The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo said in a report that one of the boats containing nearly 500 passengers caught fire and moved on Thursday evening along the Congo River in the Lukolilla region in the province, killing 107 people.

The report said that 209 survivors had been rescued after the accident, including the boat whale near the village of Malang in the Lukulla region.

A memorandum from the Ministry of Social Affairs, which was seen by Reuters news agency, said that 146 people were missing.

A day ago, in a separate accident, a driver was caught in a engine in the Bacanocoso province in the province, killing at least 86 people, government media reported that most of them were students.

Many people were missing, but the reports did not give you a number.

The cause of the accident was not immediately evident or whether the rescue operations were continuing on Friday evening.

The government media attributed an accident on Wednesday to “improper loading and night navigation”, citing reports from the scene. The pictures that appeared from the scene showed that the villagers gathered around the bodies sad.

The local civil society group blamed on Wednesday’s accident on the government and claimed that the losses were higher.

The search operations were carried out after the accidents, as the authorities pledged to comb marine banks and volunteers in society, while the authorities pledged medical care to infection and assistance to the maclabed families and return the survivors to their original places and destination.

Fire transport is a lifeline in the vast rain forest areas in DRC, where old wooden vessels are the main form of transportation between villages. It is also often cheaper than traveling on the few available roads.

However, vessels are badly preserved and collapsing under the weight and goods of passengers, and repetitive accidents.

On such trips, salvation jackets are rare, and vessels are usually loaded.

Many boats are also transmitted at night, making rescue efforts during accidents and leaving many bodies often not calculated.

Rescue operations are often impeded through limited resources and distant accident sites.