DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: A boat carrying scores of passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in the east of the country today, killing at least 50 people.

Eyewitnesses said they had seen rescue services recover at least 50 bodies from the water and that 10 people had survived and were taken to the local hospital.

The boat, which was going from Minova in South Kivu province to Goma in North Kivu, appears to have been overloaded with passengers and sank while trying to dock just yards from the port of Kituku.