A twelve-year-old child was killed and more than two hundred houses built of brick and semi-durable materials were destroyed earlier this week in Mbuji Mayi, capital of Kasai Oriental province by six-hours of heavy rain.
According to Radio Okapi of the UN mission broadcasting from Lubumbashi, the damage caused by the natural disaster is enormous and left hundreds of people homeless.
The province of Kasai Oriental said to be bustling with the magnitude of the disaster and called for emergency aid to assist victims of this disaster, the source said.
The homeless families were housed in churches and other public buildings and live in precarious conditions. Others have found shelter under old tents.
Built on sandy soil, the town of Mbuji Mayi, a sprawling city of more than 2,000,000 inhabitants in central DRC is faced with the hard problem of erosion that threaten some sites particularly important, such as part of Bipemba Airport runway.
Source African Press Agency
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