麻豆社

The death toll after last week鈥檚 heavy flooding in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa has risen to 169, according to the United Nations.

Entire neighbourhoods were flooded with muddy water and houses swept away by landslides, while roads were ripped apart by sinkholes, including the N1 highway that connects the capital to the country's main port of Matadi.

Tshoper Kabambi is a film-maker who lives in Kinshasa with his wife and three daughters. He told Newsday: 鈥淚 was very afraid for my life and for my family. I was hearing people crying鈥�most people were dying because of the electricity (and the water).鈥�

(Picture: Shows a woman bailing water out of her home in Kinshasa, DRC on December 14th, 2022. Credit: 麻豆社.)