DRC: At least hundred died in flooding
More than hundred people are feared died in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) due to flooding and landslide in Kinshasa Tuesday.
“The death toll exceeds 100 in 5 communes including Mont-Ngafula, Ngaliema, Kintambo, Bandalungwa and Selembao,” Gentiny Ngobila, Kinshasa Governor told reporters after a visit.
About sixty people were reported dead in Mont-Ngafula, one of the communes of the capital. 30 others were also reported dead in Ngaliema, another commune. Around 15 million people live in the Congolese capital made up of 24 communes.
President Félix Tshisekedi, currently in Washington for the U.S-Africa Leaders Summit ordered the central government and the provincial administration to provide support for the families who lost their love ones and to accelerate the work of drainage of rainwater to prevent this type of disaster from happening again.
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, Archbishop of Kinshasa urged authorities to seriously begin major sanitation, redevelopment and urbanization work in the city of Kinshasa.
