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Default Riverman - In the land of giant canoes?

Sounds like you have some pretty big canoes in those parts Myron.

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KINSHASA (Reuters) - At least 23 people died when a large motorized
canoe capsized on Lake Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of
Congo late on Sunday, the United Nations said on Monday.

"The provisional death toll is 23 ... 23 bodies have been recovered.
Another 43 people have been rescued but the rescue operation is
ongoing so this may rise," said Madnodje Mounoubai, a spokesman for
the U.N. mission in the eastern Congolese town of Bukavu.

The boat was going from the town of Kalehe across Lake Kivu to Goma, a
town some 25 miles away. A Kalehe resident said he believed just over
80 people were aboard the vessel, which was also laden with manioc and
bananas.
 
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