A landslide happened in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Monday. The province government and a local authority reported that at least 20 people had died and many more were missing.
According to information provided by Voltaire Batundi, a civil society leader from the greater Masisi region of Congo. The landslide that occurred on Sunday in the Bolowa area claimed the lives of eight mothers and thirteen children.
According to him, one individual is safe and has been sent to a hospital.
During the phone, he said that they were investigating the possibility of discovering “even more remains” buried under the muck.
On Monday, a representative for the governor of the province of North Kivu, which includes Masisi, confirmed that search activities had once again begun. According to the report, there twenty people were killed in the incident.
