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, showed entire neighbourhoods 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.
The prime minister and provincial governor are visiting flooded areas, and local officials are expected to meet representatives of the Interior Ministry and other state bodies to address the emergency, a representative of the governor’s office said.