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ca 140 killed in Congo boat sinking
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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 2261237" data-attributes="member: 246624"><p style="margin-left: 20px">Up to 140 people are feared dead after a boat carrying passengers and goods capsized on a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say.The accident happened on the Kasai river - a tributary of the Congo River - in the western province of Bandundu.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Information Minister Lambert Mende told the BBC the boat had been overloaded and 80 people had been confirmed dead.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">After decades of conflict, DR Congo has few roads or rail links and many people travel on often overloaded vessels.</p><p></p><p> <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/ca_140_killed_in_congo_boat_si.php" target="_blank">Read the rest of this post...</a> | <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/ca_140_killed_in_congo_boat_si.php#commentsArea" target="_blank">Read the comments on this post...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/fnUEocH0I8o" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/fnUEocH0I8o/ca_140_killed_in_congo_boat_si.php" target="_blank">More...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Geek, post: 2261237, member: 246624"] [INDENT]Up to 140 people are feared dead after a boat carrying passengers and goods capsized on a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say.The accident happened on the Kasai river - a tributary of the Congo River - in the western province of Bandundu. Information Minister Lambert Mende told the BBC the boat had been overloaded and 80 people had been confirmed dead. After decades of conflict, DR Congo has few roads or rail links and many people travel on often overloaded vessels.[/INDENT] [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/ca_140_killed_in_congo_boat_si.php"]Read the rest of this post...[/URL] | [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/ca_140_killed_in_congo_boat_si.php#commentsArea"]Read the comments on this post...[/URL][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/fnUEocH0I8o[/IMG] [url=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/fnUEocH0I8o/ca_140_killed_in_congo_boat_si.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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