Speaker 1: Death's toll has continued to rise after Injuley River overflowed
Speaker 1: its banks due to torrential rainfall in the Democratic Republic
Speaker 1: of Congo d RCA capital Kinshasa, forcing residents to shelter
Speaker 1: rooftops of their houses. Causes the river cutoff and divided
Speaker 1: major access roads in the troubled Africa country on Friday night.
Speaker 1: The Injulee River, which runs through part of the city
Speaker 1: of around seventeen million, overflowed its banks on Friday night,
Speaker 1: blocking the main national road and leaving drivers stranded since
Speaker 1: Saturday evening, according to local media. Eyewitness videos posted online
Speaker 1: showed some residents trying to flee the floodwaters by wading, swimming,
Speaker 1: or paddling to safety in homemade canoes, with some staying
Speaker 1: on rooftops. An AP news agency who monitored the situation
Speaker 1: in the drc capital, Kinshasser on Monday reported that the
Speaker 1: death toll from flooding that cut access to over half
Speaker 1: of the Congolese capital of Kinshasa reached thirty three. Authorities
Speaker 1: raced Monday to evacuate and support hundreds of families trapped
Speaker 1: in their homes. Ten more people were confirmed dead as
Speaker 1: of Sunday evening, in addition to the twenty three people
Speaker 1: killed the day before, Congolese Interior Minister jack em And
Speaker 1: Shabbani said on state television late Sunday. Heavy rains began
Speaker 1: last week, causing the key in Juleee River to overflow
Speaker 1: on Friday and submerge hundreds of buildings. While the situation
Speaker 1: had improved by Monday morning, some access roads remained blocked
Speaker 1: in vehicular traffic was limited. Many residents blamed the government
Speaker 1: for not responding quickly enough to the disaster. It was
Speaker 1: also gathered that while some residents took shelter on rooftops
Speaker 1: or in gas stations, with others remaining stranded in their vehicles,
Speaker 1: parts of the city remained difficult to access and the
Speaker 1: death toll may rise as rescue efforts continue. The death
Speaker 1: toll is provisional, but so far there are around thirty dead.
Speaker 1: Patrician Gongo Abakazi toll reuters on the way home from
Speaker 1: the airport last night to welcome a friend, we spend
Speaker 1: the night in the car because there was no safe
Speaker 1: place to park, said Patriciamaconga, a Kinshasa resident, told news agency.
Speaker 1: Kinshasa Governor Daniel Bumba Lubuki said the water infrastructure had
Speaker 1: been affected, but that supply would be reinstated within two
Speaker 1: or three days. In a televised speech, he blamed a
Speaker 1: legal housing for some of the deaths and threatened to
Speaker 1: evict people from unplanned settlements. Hydrologists drive Raphael Chimenga Muambas
Speaker 1: said the river had been affected by human activity over time.
Speaker 1: These are anthropogenic actions. Where rivers are degraded, the dimensions
Speaker 1: no longer represent their initial capacity to contain floods. He
Speaker 1: told Reuters. The flooding comes at a vulnerable moment for
Speaker 1: the Central African nation. Ruanda, backed M twenty three rebels
Speaker 1: have intensified an offensive in the turbulent east of the
Speaker 1: country since the start of the u with more than
Speaker 1: seven thousand people killed in the fighting in the first
Speaker 1: two months of the year and the rebel group taking
Speaker 1: control of more territories in the East Africa country. Some
Speaker 1: local observers noted that the city of Kinshasa was submerged
Speaker 1: in water due to the poor drainage system and preparation
Speaker 1: by authorities. Kinshasa City Governor Daniel Bumba Lubuki, called on
Speaker 1: Kinshasa residents to avoid visiting high risk areas. To prevent
Speaker 1: more casualties. Solutions have already been taken. We are evacuating people,
Speaker 1: children and pregnant women. The situation is under control, but
Speaker 1: some families have been affected. The current death toll stands
Speaker 1: at twenty two. The provincial governor declared in his initial
Speaker 1: report the situation forced several neighborhoods to be left without
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