One of the deadliest natural disasters in the country's recent history, flash floods in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have killed more than 400 people. More bodies were recuperated on Monday after floods devasted two towns - Bushushu and Nyamukubi - in the Kalehe region of the country. It comes just a few days after torrential rain that started on Thursday caused landslides and river banks to break. Nearby polite society sources said the recuperated bodies were enveloped by sacks and climbed into mass graves over the course of the end of the week. On Friday, it was accounted for that something like 176 individuals had been killed, as helpful specialists dug through the remaining parts of the smoothed towns to recuperate mud-hardened bodies from the flotsam and jetsam with many individuals actually absent. However, the most recent reports indicate that the number has now more than doubled.
The worst flood
South Kivu governor Theo Ngwabidje Kasi told a news agency that the death toll now stands at 401, but he did not provide any additional information. Christian Zihindula Bazibuhe, a representative of civil society, stated, "It is the worst flood we have ever had," noting that bodies were still floating on Lake Kivu. Monday was declared a national day of mourning by the Congolese government, and in memory of the victims, half-staff flags were to be flown. A spokesperson for the government claims that Felix Tshisekedi, the president of Congo, sent a group of government officials and lawmakers to Bukavu, a city near the southern end of Lake Kivu, with the intention of visiting the devastated area on the same day. On Sunday, a distraught survivor stated that she had lost both her family and a large number of neighbors. Anuarite Zikujuwa said, " The village as a whole has become a wasteland.
"We can't even tell where our land used to be because there are only stones left." The humanitarian organization OCHA of the United Nations also stated that approximately 3,000 families lost their homes as a result of the floods. Experts in the field of climate change at the United Nations (UN) have expressed concern that rising temperatures will result in increased rainfall intensity and frequency across Africa. UN Secretary-general Antonio Guterres depicted the floods as "one more delineation of the speed increase of environmental change" and the effect on countries "That have contributed nothing to a worldwide temperature alteration". Kinshasa was devastated by devastating floods last year, claiming at least 100 lives. The OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) of the United Nations stated at the time: Authorities claim that heavy rains that struck Kinshasa on December 12-13 resulted in the deaths of at least 169 people.
