**At least 73 people have been killed after a vessel sank on a lake in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo, it has emerged.**DR Congo’s Red Cross said a logging boat not authorised to take passengers went down in bad weather on Wednesday.
The organisation’s president, Dominic Lutula, told a radio station about 270 people had survived.
But he said that some people were still missing. Bodies had been found on the shores of Lake Mai Ndombe.