At least 20 people were killed and several others are missing after a landslide in east Democratic Republic of Congo, the provincial government and a local official said on Monday.
The bodies of eight women and 13 children were discovered after the landslide hit a river in the locality of Bolowa on Sunday as people were washing clothes and cleaning kitchenware, Voltaire Batundi, a civil society leader in the wider Masisi territory said.
One person survived and has been taken to a health centre, he added.
"We think that maybe in the mud there are still other bodies," he told Reuters by phone.
Search efforts continued on Monday, a spokesperson for the governor of North Kivu province, which includes Masisi, said. The statement put the death toll at 20.
(Reporting by Paul Lorgerie and Anait Miridzhanian; Writing by Sofia Christensen; Editing by James Macharia Chege and Andrew Heavens)
