CONGO HIT BY ANOTHER LANDSLIDE AMID HEAVY RAINS

There’s been a further landslide caused by heavy rainfall in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).

Six people are confirmed dead and more than 100 workers are feared trapped inside a mine which collapsed near the town of Rubaya in North Kivu province.

Floods and mudslides that hit two villages on the shores of Lake Kivu last week are known to have killed at least 400 people.

Thousands more are reported missing.

In a BBC interview, a government spokesman, Patrick Muyaya, defended the handling of the crisis, amid criticism of the authorities being too slow to respond and using mass graves to bury the dead.

Source BBC