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Kasai River disaster
The Kasai River disaster occurred on 29 July 2010 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), when an overloaded passenger ferry capsized on the Kasai River in Bandundu province, east of Kinshasa. At least 80 people were confirmed to have died, with other accounts putting this figure closer to 140.
==Background==
Owing to the country's lack of roads outside major cities, ferries and river transport are a major component of transport in the DRC. The country, which is comparable in size to the whole of Western Europe, has just a few hundred kilometres of paved roads outside the cities. 〔 The disaster occurred on the Kasai River, a tributary of the Congo River, in the western Bandundu province, east of the capital, Kinshasa.〔〔〔 The boat was travelling to Kinshasa from the town of Mushie in Bandundu's western Kwilu district, which is from the city of Bandundu, the capital of that province.〔〔〔
The government stated that boat owners in the DRC were frequently negligent and that adherence to insurance rules and maintenance schedules was often lax.〔 Fatal riverine accidents are frequent in the DRC and are often blamed on overloading. Several decades of conflict in the region have degraded the country's infrastructure, leaving aircraft and boats as the best or only option for travel.〔〔〔 According to Agence France-Presse, boating accidents are made more likely by the poor state of the signage in navigable channels, the lack of signal lights on vessels and the inexperience of pilots. The situation is compounded because most vessels fail to meet basic safety standards.〔
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