Ugandans feared dead in DR Congo building collapse

Jul 06, 2020

More than 30 bodies were pulled from the rubble after the multi-storeyed building collapsed on Sunday morning.

Scores of people, including Ugandans, are feared dead after a building under construction collapsed in the busy Congolese Lhubiriha town, a few hundred metres from the Uganda-DR Congo border point of Mpondwe in Kasese district.

Pastor Mathumu Kyakimwa, who owns business across the border, told our sources that a number of Ugandans have been working on the ill-fated building.

More than 30 bodies were pulled from the rubble after the multi-storeyed building collapsed on Sunday morning.

Preliminary reports received by New Vision indicate that whereas some people were rescued, about 50 others were by Sunday evening still unaccounted for.

Sources, however, said a rescue team led by the Congolese police, were still struggling to find the survivors aided by excavators.

A number of vehicles and other assets of unspecified millions of Congolese francs were also destroyed in the incident.

But security blocked journalists and other Ugandan nationals from accessing the scene for fear of spreading the novel coronavirus. 

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