A pirog turned on Lake Albert on Wednesday as it traveled with its passengers from the DRC to Uganda. Several people died.
Several people have died and others are missing after a shipwreck that occurred at Lake Albert on Wednesday. A pirog turned around as he traveled with his passengers from the DRC to Uganda to buy or sell products in a cross-border market. By Thursday night, only 7 bodies had been recovered. Survivors have witnessed this tragedy.
They were surprised by a storm, according to Jean-Baptiste Lalo of the Ituri civil society. He also specifies that we must be careful on the balance sheet, although the more time passes, the more the concern grows.
The storms occasionally surprise the canoes on the lake
Jean-Bosco Lalo from the civil society Ituri
According to AFP, quoting Ashraf Oromo, an official in the Ugandan administration responsible for the place from which the ship left, “26 bodies were recovered and 21 people were rescued”. .
