The death toll from floods and landslides in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has risen to 120, according to the country’s interior ministry. The government has declared a three-day mourning period. The flooding ripped through streets and neighborhoods, including the N1 highway that connects Kinshasa to the country’s key port city of Matadi. Several homes and roads were also damaged by landslides.
Kinshasa has a population of 15 million people, and about 12 million of them live in flood-affected districts.
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