Torrential rains killed at least 22 people and caused significant material damage on Tuesday in Kananga, capital of Kasaï-Central, in the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a provisional report communicated by the provincial authorities.
According to the communications service of the governor of Kasai-Central, more than 15 houses were swept away in landslides caused by rain, which fell in quantity during the night and a good part of the day.
“Swallowed in a house”
On Sunday, around twenty people were swept away by a flooded river in the east of the country, in the province of South Kivu. Four bodies were found.
Among the victims of bad weather in Kananga are a woman and her eight children, “engulfed in a house”, a father and his four children who died in another neighborhood and seven people killed in another landslide, specify the governor’s services in a communicated.
This damage, according to them, results from “the anarchic construction that the town of Kananga is experiencing”.