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/ 16 April 2008

Forty people killed in DRC plane-crash disaster

Forty people died and more than 100 were injured in a passenger-jet crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) city of Goma on Tuesday, the provincial governor said on Wednesday. ”The toll from this accident is now 40 dead and 111 injured,” the governor of Nord-Kivu, Julien Paluku, said after visiting hospitals and clinics.

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/ 16 April 2008

Bodies recovered from site of DRC plane crash

Rescue workers have recovered 21 bodies from the crash site in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where a passenger plane smashed into a crowded market on take-off, the chairperson of the airline said late on Tuesday — but they have so far been unable to establish if any of the plane’s passengers were among the victims.

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/ 15 April 2008

Plane crashes in DRC town

A passenger plane carrying 85 people crashed into a crowded neighbourhood in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) town of Goma on Tuesday, and only six survivors have been found so far, government officials said. Smoke engulfed the charred ruins of the aircraft, which appeared to have broken in two.

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/ 19 March 2008

Park manager arrested over gorilla deaths

A senior manager at a world heritage African wildlife park was arrested on Tuesday as an investigation into the killing of 10 rare mountain gorillas gathered pace, a government minister said. Local environment experts said that "profound internal disagreements" within the conservation institute could lie behind the massacre.