At least 15 people killed, around 60 missing in Congo landslide: Officials
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A local official said that it is difficult to tell the exact number of missing people because a market was held at this place every Saturday. The official said that this area is a kind of port, where fishermen come to sell fish and buy soap.
At least 15 people have died and about 60 are missing in landslides triggered by heavy rains in southwestern Congo. Local officials gave this information on Sunday. Seven people were found alive after a landslide on Saturday near the port near the town of Idiofa.
“There is a hill ahead of the port and due to the rains the soil on the hill slipped,” local official Dhedhe Mupasa told reporters on Sunday. The province’s interim governor, Fleisin Kiwe, told reporters that a team sent to search for the missing found seven people alive and admitted them to hospital. He said that 60 people are still missing,
A local official said that it is difficult to tell the exact number of missing people because a market was held at this place every Saturday. The official said that this area is a kind of port, where fishermen come to sell fish and buy soap.
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