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Speaker 1: Death’s toll has continued to rise after Injuley River overflowed

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its banks due to torrential rainfall in the Democratic Republic

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of Congo d RCA capital Kinshasa, forcing residents to shelter

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rooftops of their houses. Causes the river cutoff and divided

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major access roads in the troubled Africa country on Friday night.

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The Injulee River, which runs through part of the city

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of around seventeen million, overflowed its banks on Friday night,

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blocking the main national road and leaving drivers stranded since

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Saturday evening, according to local media. Eyewitness videos posted online

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showed some residents trying to flee the floodwaters by wading, swimming,

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or paddling to safety in homemade canoes, with some staying

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on rooftops. An AP news agency who monitored the situation

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in the drc capital, Kinshasser on Monday reported that the

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death toll from flooding that cut access to over half

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of the Congolese capital of Kinshasa reached thirty three. Authorities

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raced Monday to evacuate and support hundreds of families trapped

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in their homes. Ten more people were confirmed dead as

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of Sunday evening, in addition to the twenty three people

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killed the day before, Congolese Interior Minister jack em And

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Shabbani said on state television late Sunday. Heavy rains began

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last week, causing the key in Juleee River to overflow

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on Friday and submerge hundreds of buildings. While the situation

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had improved by Monday morning, some access roads remained blocked

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in vehicular traffic was limited. Many residents blamed the government

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for not responding quickly enough to the disaster. It was

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also gathered that while some residents took shelter on rooftops

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or in gas stations, with others remaining stranded in their vehicles,

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parts of the city remained difficult to access and the

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death toll may rise as rescue efforts continue. The death

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toll is provisional, but so far there are around thirty dead.

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Patrician Gongo Abakazi toll reuters on the way home from

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the airport last night to welcome a friend, we spend

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the night in the car because there was no safe

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place to park, said Patriciamaconga, a Kinshasa resident, told news agency.

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Kinshasa Governor Daniel Bumba Lubuki said the water infrastructure had

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been affected, but that supply would be reinstated within two

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or three days. In a televised speech, he blamed a

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legal housing for some of the deaths and threatened to

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evict people from unplanned settlements. Hydrologists drive Raphael Chimenga Muambas

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said the river had been affected by human activity over time.

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These are anthropogenic actions. Where rivers are degraded, the dimensions

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no longer represent their initial capacity to contain floods. He

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told Reuters. The flooding comes at a vulnerable moment for

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the Central African nation. Ruanda, backed M twenty three rebels

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have intensified an offensive in the turbulent east of the

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country since the start of the u with more than

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seven thousand people killed in the fighting in the first

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two months of the year and the rebel group taking

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control of more territories in the East Africa country. Some

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local observers noted that the city of Kinshasa was submerged

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in water due to the poor drainage system and preparation

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by authorities. Kinshasa City Governor Daniel Bumba Lubuki, called on

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Kinshasa residents to avoid visiting high risk areas. To prevent

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more casualties. Solutions have already been taken. We are evacuating people,

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children and pregnant women. The situation is under control, but

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some families have been affected. The current death toll stands

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at twenty two. The provincial governor declared in his initial

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report the situation forced several neighborhoods to be left without

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power supply to avoid electrocutiondi quindi uinni in imogical