US EditionOver 5,500 still missing in flood-hit east Congo: local official
- More than 5,500 people remain missing after floods killed over 400 people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The floods, which were triggered by days of heavy rain, destroyed homes, swept away crops, and displaced thousands of people. Scores of bodies have been recovered from the affected villages, and mass graves have been dug to dispose of them.
- Shaken survivors are waiting for food aid, and there are concerns about a lack of supplies and equipment to help those affected by the disaster.
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Thousands still missing as Congo flood survivors search for relatives
The death toll from flooding in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo crept higher on Tuesday as aid workers found more bodies among the muddy devastation and wounded residents succumbed to their injuries in an underequipped local clinic.
Thousands still missing as Congo flood survivors search for relatives
The death toll from flooding in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo crept higher on Tuesday as aid workers found more bodies among the muddy devastation and wounded residents succumbed to their injuries in an underequipped local clinic. The floods, in a remote, mountainous area of South Kivu province, ripped through…
Thousands still missing as Congo flood survivors search for relatives
NYAMUKUBI -- T he death toll from flooding in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo crept higher on Tuesday as aid workers found more bodies among the muddy devastation and as wounded residents succumbed to their injuries in an underequipped local clinic.
Over 5,500 still missing in flood-hit east DR Congo —local official
More than 5,500 people are still unaccounted for in an area in east Democratic of Congo where floods killed more than 400 people last week, a local official said on Tuesday, as shaken survivors waited for food aid.. DR Congo flood victims buried en masse as death toll rises above 400.
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