{"id":59446,"date":"2020-01-23T10:22:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T02:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59446"},"modified":"2020-01-23T10:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T02:22:54","slug":"at-least-15-people-dead-as-boat-capsizes-in-dr-congo-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59446","title":{"rendered":"At least 15 people dead as boat capsizes in DR Congo: Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/At-least-15-people-dead-as-boat-capsizes-in-DR-Congo-845017?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/307\/30730259.295.jpg\" alt=\"A boat capsized\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>A boat capsized<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KINSHASA, Jan 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; At least 15 people died after a boat capsized in a lake in western Democratic Republic of Congo, a local mayor said.<br><br>More people are missing from the Monday accident in Lake Mai-Ndombe, the Mayor of Inongo, Cosmos Mboo Wemba, said.<br><br>The cause of the accident is not yet known.<br><br>The vessel was carrying around 30 people who were returning from a funeral 35 kilometres away, journalist Firoger Balimba said.<br><br>In May 2019, at least 45 people died in the lake after a boat that was carrying more than 400 people sank.<br><br>The majority of those on board were teachers going to collect their salaries.<br><br>Boat accidents are frequent in DR Congo because of overloading and poor maintenance. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A boat capsized KINSHASA, Jan 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; At least 15 people died after a boat capsized in a lake in western Democratic Republic of Congo, a local mayor said. More people are missing from the Monday accident in Lake Mai-Ndombe, the Mayor of Inongo, Cosmos Mboo Wemba, said. The cause of the accident is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59446"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}