200 passengers lost in a Congo boat

200 passengers lost in a Congo boat

In Kasai Occidental Province of Congo, a boat with too many passengers in jose reyes jersey and containing fuel drums caught fire and crashed. It made about 200 people missing while the local fishermen in johan santana jersey refused to save the drowning people jumping from the boat. This incident was regarded as the worst boat accident in Africa in 2010.

Congo located in the central Africa, is full of jungles and big rivers. Because of little paved roads, the residents usually like travel by boat though many of them can not swim. At the same time, the boats through the rivers contained too many david wright jersey and lacked repair. So every year there are many accidents.

Survivors said the boat loaded too many people and goods, but not sure the exact number.

A survivor Fabrice Muamba in ike davis jersey said that after catching fire, a lot of passengers started to jump off the boat and he thought maybe just 15 of them can swim to a safety place. At that time, the boat already passed Mbendayi village and went to Tshikapa –a north town, which was 45 miles far. Many passengers obviously disappeared in the fire with their darryl strawberry jersey.

Another survivor Romaine Mishondo in tom seaver jersey said the boat went on to load another more persons while there were already a lot of people. She couldn’t count it out how many because it was really too crowded. She also pointed out surrounding fishermen in keith hernandez jersey refused to save them and took no notice to their please. She got a jerrycan luckily and saved by a vessel passing by latter.

Mwamba Mwati Nguma in dwight gooden jersey who owned the ship told us, a worker called him and told the engine of boat was on fire because of some workers wrongly using of fuel. He became crazy about this incident and even suggested the police to arrest the manager in carlos beltran jersey responsible for the hiring unskilled workers. But he was not sure what had happened for details while he was in Kinshasa –about 500 miles away from the site at that time.

Now 2 boat workers had been arrested and under investigation. It was known that the boat really load fuel drums. Also there was some bags maize.  But the workers in mookie wilson jersey could not say out how many persons on boat because the passengers’ list maybe fired.