160 bodies recovered in Congo ferry crash

SEARCH teams have recovered the bodies of 160 people killed when two ferries collided in a storm on a Congo River tributary and were searching yesterday for more than 100 others still missing, authorities said.

160 bodies recovered in Congo ferry crash

Of the roughly 500 on board the ferries, 222 are known to have survived the collision, said Catherine Nzuzi, Congo's minister of humanitarian affairs.

The disaster happened on Tuesday evening near Inongo, a town on an offshoot of the vast Central African nation's main inland waterway, the Congo River.

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