In Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the inability of persons in the rural Communities of the country to afford paying a car to transport the dead body of their loved ones back to the village for proper burial, many of the bereaved end up hiring a motorcycle to do the job.
This is because the bikers must have to move to a distance of nearly 400 km, with a corpse on the back.
Town Crier News gathered that those involved are mainly the poor families who cannot afford the price of an ambulance, and are forced to adopt this technique.
The lifeless body is wrapped in a blanket, supported on both sides by tree branches attached to a motorcycle.
This is how “boda boda” riders as they are popularly called in parts of rural DR Congo transport corpse to and from the mortuary.
What you are seeing wrapped and tied on the bike here are dead bodies