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Rescue, recovery teams search lake for quake victims
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Rescue, recovery teams search lake for quake victims1:00 AMKINSHASA, 6 Dec 2005 (IRIN) - The search for possible victims of an earthquake near the lakeside town of Kalemie in eastern Congo (DRC) continued along the shores of Lake Tanganyika on Tuesday, humanitarian and provincial authorities in Goma, capital of North Kivu Province, said.
Kalemie is the largest town near the epicentre of Monday's magnitude 6.8 quake in Lake Tanganyika.
Humanitarian and local authorities put the death toll and material damage at three dead and 10 homes destroyed.
Tshimanga said fishermen had been asked to help search the edge of the lake because people had been pursuing their normal activities on the water when the quake occurred at 12.30.
He said the agency was still collating preliminary reports of possible damage but, so far, there had been no reported deaths.
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