On Thursday, Colonel Molatelo Motau of SADC's mission in Democratic Republic of Congo announced that 40 people were rescued and 23 bodies recovered following a boating accident on Lake Kivu.

Video seen by showed the boat tipping sideways and then capsizing in calm water. The video was not verified immediately.

Local migration authorities reported that approximately 45 males, and 35 females had been registered as passengers. However, these figures are not final and the ages of those individuals were unknown.

According to several survivors, there were nearly 200 passengers on board. (Reporting and writing by Fiston Mahaamba, Djaffar Sabiti and Crispin Kiala; editing by Bate Felix & Alex Richardson).

(source: Reuters)