At least 21 people are dead and several others are missing after a landslide in eastern DR Congo.

After the landslide hit a river in the Bolowa area on Sunday, the bodies of eight women and thirteen children were found.

A day after a landslide in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, at least 21 people have died and several others are still missing.

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A civil society leader in the larger Masisi territory, Voltaire Batundi, said that the bodies of eight women and thirteen children were found in a river after a landslide hit it on Sunday while people were washing clothes and cleaning dishes.

He also said that one person made it out alive and was taken to a hospital.


"We think there might be more bodies in the mud," he told the news agency Reuters by phone.


A spokesman for the governor of North Kivu province, which includes Masisi, said that search efforts were still going on on Monday.


The head of the Osso-Banyungu civil society group, Fabrice Muphirwa Kubuya, said that the landslide happened around noon in the village of Bulwa, putting the preliminary death toll at 30. Anadolu Agency reported that Kubuya said that the landslide happened in the village of Bulwa.

He also said that days of heavy rain might have caused the mudslide.

SOURCE: NEWS AGENCIES