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Heavy flooding pursuing torrential rains successful eastbound Congo washed distant respective villages on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, leaving astatine slightest 62 dormant and 50 missing, authorities said Saturday.
Witnesses described the floods surging astatine astir 5 a.m. section clip connected Friday and sweeping distant the colony of Kasaba connected the borderline of the water successful the Ngandja sector.
The South Kivu provincial wellness minister, Théophile Walulika Muzaliwa, said by telephone that the rescue cognition was hampered by a deficiency of services and a shutdown of telephone lines owed to the flooding.
"Sector chiefs, colony chiefs and locality chiefs, who are besides members of the section government, are connected site. The lone humanitarian enactment presently contiguous is the Red Cross. It is not imaginable to springiness an appraisal arsenic assemblage searches are continuing," helium said.
Last month, flooding successful the capital, Kinshasa, killed 33 people.
Decades of warring betwixt authorities troops and rebels successful eastbound Congo escalated successful February, worsening what is already 1 of the world's largest humanitarian crises.
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