Africa News
Scores of people feared dead after flooding in Congo─── 09:18 Wed, 29 Oct 2014
Brazzaville - Scores of people are feared dead after terrible floods hit the strife-torn east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
More than 700 homes, a school and a church were reportedly destroyed around Bushushu village in South Kivu province after heavy rain set off landslides, with some victims said to have been swept into Lake Kivu.
Spokesperson for a society group, Crispin Mokili, says 30 or so bodies have been identified already. He says the heavy rain that has been pounding the area since the weekend has made it difficult to recover the dead.
Although there is no official confirmation of the death toll, the head of the UN's MONUSCO mission in the war-ravaged region, Martin Kobler, says he is "deeply concerned by the number of victims and the scale of the damage".
He says the UN will do "everything possible to come to the aid of the victims of this disaster".
Sapa
