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The victims were mostly children and elderly people, with an additional 28 injured.
Heavy overnight floods have washed away several villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing more than 100 people, according to local officials, in a nation suffering war and mass displacement.
The floods were triggered by torrential rains and surged through the Kasaba village, in South Kivu province, during the night of Thursday into Friday, regional official Bernard Akili told news agency AFP on Saturday.
Torrential rains caused the Kasaba River to burst its banks overnight, with the rushing…
