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KINSHASA, April 6, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Heavy downpours in the Democratic
Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa have left around 30 people dead while
wrecking havoc in the central African megacity, an official told AFP on
Sunday.

"There are many wounded who have been evacuated and for the moment we are in
the 30s for the number of dead" from Saturday's torrential, Patricien Gongo
Abakazi, Kinshasa's provincial minister of public health told AFP.

The victims either drowned or were killed when the walls of their homes
collapsed, the doctor added.

After the rain poured down overnight Friday to Saturday, the rising water
levels devastated several outlying and impoverished suburbs of the metropolis
of some 17 million people.

The rising waters likewise cut off traffic on the national road one,
Kinshasa's main thoroughfare which takes drivers from the centre to the
airport, as well as in many neighbouring districts.

Flooding frequently affects Kinshasa, which sits on the bank of the banks of
River Congo, Africa's second-largest after the Nile.