The administrator of the worst-affected space, the Kalehe territory of South Kivu province, informed The Associated Press by cellphone that extra our bodies had been recovered on Sunday, together with many discovered floating in Lake Kivu.
Administrator Thomas Bakenge stated the confirmed variety of lifeless stood at 394 but it surely was a provisional depend because the search was persevering with.
More than 300 victims had been buried as of Sunday, native teams stated.
Torrential rains throughout Kalehe territory started on Thursday night.
Rivers broke their banks, with flash floods sweeping away nearly all of buildings within the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi, inflicting the massive lack of life.
Delphin Birimbi, a civic chief in Kalehe, stated he understood that hundreds of individuals remained lacking.
He informed the AP that some medical doctors arrived to deal with the injured however communities had been pleading for extra emergency help.
The destruction brought on by the flooding hampered assist efforts, with two essential roads impassable.
More than 170 victims had been buried in 4 mass graves, Valet Chebujongo, a youth political activist serving to within the rescue efforts in Kalehe, stated by phone.
“Imagine, you bury them in a mass grave, without a coffin,” Chebujongo stated.
The Congolese authorities declared Monday as a nationwide day of mourning, with flags to fly at half-staff in reminiscence of the victims.
A delegation of presidency officers and politicians despatched by Congo’s president, Félix Tshisekedi, arrived in Bukavu, a metropolis close to the southern a part of Lake Kivu and deliberate to go to the devastated space on Monday, in response to a authorities spokesperson.
Heavy rains in current days have introduced distress to hundreds in East Africa, together with in elements of Uganda and Kenya.
Flooding and landslides in Rwanda, which borders Congo, left 129 individuals lifeless earlier within the week.
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