More than 200 people have died and more than 100 are missing after two separate boat accidents this week in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to residents of the area and local news reports. One of the boats was carrying mostly students between the ages of 12 and 15, officials and residents said. They said the students had been on their way to a town, Basankusu, for the start of the new school year, after spending their holidays in their home villages. More than 100 people, dozens of them students, died in that accident, in which a motorized boat capsized on Wednesday night, residents and civil society groups in the area said. A day later, another boat carrying about 500 passengers caught fire and capsized in the Lukolela territory, killing more than 100 and leaving more than 100 others missing as of Friday, media reports said, citing Congo’s humanitarian affairs ministry.