Landslide kills 40 in northeast DRCongo
17 Aug 2017 5:03 PM GMT
Bunia: A landslide has swept over a fishing village on the banks of a lake in the northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 40 people, a regional official said on Thursday. Part of a mountain engulfed "a fisherman's camp after heavy rains caused a landslide" the deputy governor of Ituri province, Pacifique Keta, told AFP.
He said 40 people were killed in the disaster in the village of Tora on the banks of Lake Albert on Wednesday. It follows devastating floods in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown on Monday that killed some 300 people.
"Yesterday (Wednesday), we buried 28 bodies and today we will bury 12 more," said Keta. A doctor at the nearby Tshomia hospital, Herve Isamba, said they were treating four people injured in the landslide.
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