A ferry overloaded with people returning home for Christmas capsized on the Busira River in northeastern Congo, leaving 38 people confirmed dead and over 100 others missing, officials and eyewitnesses said on Saturday. Twenty people have been rescued so far.
The sinking of the ferry late on Friday came less than four days after another boat capsized in the country's northeast, killing 25 people.
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