BUSHUSHU, Democratic Republic of Congo—Dead bodies were still being recovered on Monday from two villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where floods killed more than 400 people last week in one of the country’s deadliest disasters in recent history.
Many dazed survivors were mourning multiple family members killed in the flash floods that swept away entire homes and buried the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi, both in South Kivu province, in muck and debris.
“Over there in the mud, that’s where our house was. We lost six people in our family. In our house, five children died and our mother who is the sixth,” said 22-year-old Alliance Mufanzara, pointing at an empty plot of churned earth….