Dr. Congo’s Kinshasa’da strong floods dozens of dead, destroy houses Climate news

The capital of the capital is struggling to overflow, drivers are closed and the infrastructure collapsed.

Heavy rains killed 30 people in the Democratic Republic of Kinshasa in the Congo Democratic Republic, killing their homes and roads and caused a severe river.

Provincial Health Minister Patricien Gongo provides the number of deaths in Sunday, but stressed that “temporary”. Most of the flood deaths, he caused the walls of the collapse.

The Ndjili River, which was cut by the wedding of about 17 million people in Teeming, burned banks by leaking the main national road on Thursday. Motorists were closed for hours, some were all night.

“On the way to meet a friend from the airport last night, there was no safe place to park the night in the park,” Patricia Mikonga, a Kinshasa resident, told Reuters.

Many neighborhoods have pledged to the dark, while others experienced a shortage of water.

Kinshasa Governor Daniel Bumba Lubaki said the water infrastructure was injured, but that the residents of this supply will be restored during the days, he said. Speaking of state television, he accused of illegal housing for some deaths and warned people who could face people living in unplanned settlements.

Rafael Tshimanga Muamba, a hydrologist, said that people worsen the state of the river over time.

“These are anthropogenic movements where the rivers are broken; their dimensions are no longer representing their primary capabilities to contain floods,” he said. Reuters.

Flood comes as faced with instability with country Conflict in the eastern part of the country. The Rwanda-supported M23 rebels have closed the attacks there since the beginning of the year, killing more than 7,000 people in recent months and millions of people.