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KINSHASA, Dec. 13 (AP) — At least 100 people were killed and dozens more injured in widespread flooding and landslides caused by torrential rains in the Congolese capital Kinshasa on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde said officials were still searching for more bodies.
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“We came to assess the damage and the main damage we saw was personal injury,” Lukonde said on state television on Tuesday.
Some 12 million people lived in Kinshasa’s 24 flood-hit neighborhoods, killing people, flooding homes and destroying roads, three local officials told The Associated Press.
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More than three dozen people have died in Ngaliema district and the bodies are still being counted, Ngaliema district mayor Alid’or Tshibanda said. In another part of town, five members of a family were killed, some by electrocution.
“This is a just disaster,” Pierrot Mantuela said. The 30-year-old lost her mother, 9-year-old daughter and three brothers. “It’s sad to lose all of your family,” he said. He survived because he was working when it rained Monday night, he said.
Most of the damage occurred on homes built on plots without official permits, officials said.
“They don’t have papers. They get evicted, but they always come back,” Mont-Ngafula Mayor Dieumerci Mayibazilwanga said of people building houses without permits.
Floods and landslides killed at least 32 people in and around Kinshasa in 2019. (Associated Press)
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