40 dead as landslide swallows village in DRC
Part of a mountain engulfed a fisherman’s camp on Lake Albert on Thursday, after heavy rains
Bunia — A landslide has swept over a fishing village on the banks of a lake in the northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), killing 40 people, a regional official said on Thursday. Part of a mountain engulfed "a fisherman’s camp after heavy rains caused a landslide" the deputy governor of Ituri province, Pacifique Keta, told AFP. He said 40 people were killed in the disaster in the village of Tora on the banks of Lake Albert on Wednesday. It follows devastating floods in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown on Monday that killed some 300 people. "[On Wednesday], we buried 28 bodies and today we will bury 12 more." A doctor at the nearby Tshomia hospital, Hervé Isamba, said they were treating four people injured in the landslide. The vast country has experienced a number of such disasters. In May 2010, a mudslide that swept over the eastern village of Kibiriga killed 19 people: the bodies of 27 others were never recovered. In February 2002, about 50 people were found dead after ...
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