Up to 100 dead after ferry catches fire on Lake Tanganyika

Kinshasa/Nairobi – Up to 100 people were presumed dead following a fire on a ferry on the Congolese side of Lake Tanganyika in central Africa, reports said Wednesday in Kinshasa.
The ferry was travelling south from Uvira to Kalemie with several tonnes of freight, including barrels of oil and petrol, when the engine caught fire, United Nations-run Radio Okapi reported. Only 18 people were thought to have survived the accident.