DR CONGO: Child dies as flood hits DR Congo capital

A child has died in Kinshasa amid severe flooding caused by heavy rains in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said on Sunday.

On Saturday, rivers, canals and sewers in Kinshasa overflowed, flooding roads in the industrial district of the central African country’s largest city.

Damage was overall “marginal compared to the devastation expected according to weather forecasts”, Kinshasa governor Daniel Bumba said in a video on social media.

But he said a two-year-old had died near the Kalamu River.

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Heavy rain and flooding in the Congolese capital regularly turn deadly, with some 40 people killed in a disaster in November 2019.