Screaming storms rushing through a community during the night killed more than 100 people, many of them children as they slept, in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, regional authorities told AFP on Saturday. The storms were sparked by heavy rains and ripped through the Kasaba town in the Sud Kivu territory during the night of Thursday-Friday, Bernard Akili, a local official, told AFP. Heavy rains caused the Kasaba valley to burst its banks over, with the rushing lakes” carrying all in their way, large rocks, large trees and dirt, before razing the properties on the edge of the lake,” he said. ” The survivors who died are generally children and elderly,” he said, adding that 28 people were injured and some 150 homes were destroyed.
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Sammy Kalonji, the local executive, said the stream killed at least 104 people and caused “enormous material injury. ” Another nearby resident told AFP that some 119 body had been found by Saturday. The town, which sits on the Tanganyika lake and is only available by the lake, does not have online service, a local charitable worker told AFPSuch natural disasters are repeated in the DRC, especially on the shores of the great lakes in the south of the country, with the surrounding hills weakened by deforestation. In 2023, floods killed 400 people in several communities located on the shores of Lake Kivu, in South Kivu province.
