At least 40 people have been killed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as a result of heavy rains that caused flooding and and landslides. As Reuters reports UNN.
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According to official sources, 20 people were killed in the town of Bukavu and another 20 in the village of Burini.
According to one local resident, on Wednesday in Bukavu, a group of men pulled a car out of the mud to remove the body of a woman who had been the body of a woman who had died in the mud.
Another Bukavu resident who managed to escape who managed to escape, said that her neighbor was swept away by the floodwaters. She added that only three bodies have been recovered so far.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted that poor urban planning and weak infrastructure make communities like Bukavu communities like Bukavu extremely vulnerable to extreme rainfall events, which are becoming more intense in Africa are becoming increasingly intense due to global temperature increases.
