More than 20 people were killed and several others are missing after a landslide in the east Democratic Republic of Congo, the provincial government and a local official announced on Monday.
Voltaire Batundi, a civil society leader in the wider Masisi territory, stated that they discovered the bodies of eight women and 13 children. The incident took place in a river in the locality of Bolowa when people were washing clothes and cleaning kitchenware.
"We think that maybe in the mud there are still other bodies," Batundi told Reuters by phone.
Alphonse Mushesha Mihingano, a local administrator, highlighted that around 25 mothers, with their children, had been doing laundry in a stream at the foot of a mountain when the ground gave way above, burying some of them.
Bulwa resident Musafiri Balume provided a similar account, pointing out that he had lost a sister in the landslide, which occurred during heavy rains.
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