The Congolese Red Cross has suspended its search for hundreds of victims of recent deadly floods in eastern Congo as it lacks the machinery needed to dig through metres of mud and debris, its local representative said on Tuesday.
Red Cross teams have been searching for bodies since early May, when the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi, both in Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, were"All those we refer to as missing - and there are still hundreds - I think they are dead. They are buried 3 metres below the surface, under the deluge of mud, rocks, and timber," Desire Yuma Machumu, head of the South Kivu Red Cross, told Reuters by phone.
Recovery efforts have been hampered by the remote location of Kalehe territory, where days of torrential rain triggered the landslides and floods on May 4. South Kivu Governor Theo Ngwabidje Kasi said the road to the villages was still cut off, but would reopen soon. Close to 9,000 people have been impacted by the floods, which also raised fears that the dead bodies and destroyed sewage systems could contaminate water and spread disease.
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