Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila sacked his transport minister on Friday after an air crash that killed 52 people in the Central African country, which has one of the world’s worst aviation safety records. The decision was announced as DRC’s Cabinet met to discuss air safety after Thursday’s accident.
Thirty-eight people were killed in the crash of a Russian-made cargo plane in Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) capital Kinshasa on Thursday, the government said on Friday as it raised the provisional death toll. The Ministry for Humanitarian Affairs said the dead included 20 passengers and three crew who had been aboard the aircraft.