YEREVAN, MAY 8, ARTSAKHPRESS. The death toll following flooding and landslides in the Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to at least 401, a local official told Reuters on Monday.
At least 176 people were reported dead on Friday and many more missing as humanitarian workers recovered scores of bodies. A further 205 people were seriously injured in the flooding caused when rivers burst their banks following heavy rains on Thursday, while 167 people are listed as missing, Al Jazeera reported.
Theo Ngwabidje Kasi, governor of South Kivu province in the east of the central African country, told Reuters by message on Monday that the death toll now stood at 401. He did not provide any other details.
The disaster in Eastern DR Congo came two days after floods killed at least 131 people and destroyed thousands of homes in neighbouring Rwanda, which lies on the other side of Lake Kivu.
