Almost 400 our bodies have been retrieved following floods and landslides that hit two villages in jap Democratic Republic of Congo final week.
The authorities had beforehand stated 200 individuals had died following torrential rainfall on Thursday
In a number of villages near the shore of Lake Kivu, individuals have been digging by means of the mud with their fingers in a determined seek for lacking family.
The Congolese Crimson Cross volunteers don’t have physique luggage.
They’re having to pile up the our bodies wrapped up in blankets within the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi in South Kivu province.
It’s now three days because the floods hit and the variety of lifeless retains rising, now standing at 394.
One distraught mom in Nyamukubi stated her husband had survived and was in hospital however all her youngsters have been gone.
“It is like the top of the world,” 27-year-old Gentille Ndagijimana, who additionally misplaced her dad and mom and two sisters, informed the AFP information company.
Houses fabricated from picket planks with corrugated iron rooves have been swept away.
In Bushushu village a few of the buildings which can be nonetheless standing are half buried within the mud.
Final week additionally noticed floods throughout the opposite aspect of Lake Kivu in neighbouring Rwanda the place greater than 130 individuals have been killed.
UN chief António Guterres stated the floods have been one other illustration of accelerating local weather change.