Five dead In DR Congo Landslide

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Rescuers look at a damaged building as they search for potential survivors at the site following a landslide in Taining county in southeast China's Fujian province, Sunday, May 8, 2016. Rescuers on Sunday searched for 34 construction workers missing in a landslide at the site of a hydropower project following days of heavy rain in southern China. Seven other workers were pulled out alive, officials and state-run media reported. (Chinatopix via AP) CHINA OUT

Five dead In DR Congo Landslide

 

Four women and a child died when a landslide flattened their houses after heavy rain in Bukavu in eastern DR Congo, local sources said Saturday.

“Five dead bodies have been found in Kadutu commune after a landslip following torrential rain” overnight, local civil representative Hypocrate Marume told AFP.

He said the victims were four women and a small boy — a tally confirmed by mayor Munyole Kashama — adding searches for further bodies were underway.

Kashama said at least four people had been injured.

A landslide last year killed 40 people in a fishing village in the north-eastern region of Ituri.

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