47 dead, 100 missing as boat sinks
A motorised boat has sunk in Congo killing at least 47 people. Around 100 people are missing.
District Commissioner Mathieu Modeste Bella said that the 47 bodies had been recovered from the Ubangi River.
Twenty-seven survivors were also helped to shore.
Bella said the boat was carrying at least 182 passengers, mostly merchants but also women and children.
The boat went down after it left the Congo town of Mobayi Bongo.
It was headed for the Central African Republic.
Because of the state of roads, many people prefer to take the small boats even if they do not know how to swim.