KINSHASA—At least 50 people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital Kinshasa after heavy rains unleashed floods and caused landslides, the city’s police chief Sylvano Kasongo said on Tuesday.
Images shared online, which Reuters was not immediately able to verify, showed entire neighborhoods flooded with muddy water and roads ripped apart by sinkholes.
One video appeared to show a major highway cut in half by a giant hole that had swallowed several vehicles in Mont-Ngafula district. Onlookers in raincoats crept to the edge to peer into the chasm.
“We are already at around fifty deaths and that is not yet final,” Kasongo said….