More than 100 people have been killed in floods in northern and western Rwanda, the Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA), which oversees public broadcast media, said on Wednesday, citing reports from local authorities.
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The rain that fell last night (Tuesday) caused disaster in the northern and western provinces.
Currently, the provisional figures released by the administration of these provinces indicate that 109 people have been declared dead
,” writes the RBA on its website.
Rainy season
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Western province is the most affected by the disaster, where provisional figures show 95 dead, while 14 people have died in the northern province,” she
explains, adding that infrastructure were also destroyed.
Footage posted on the RBA's Twitter account shows destroyed homes, roads cut off by landslides, flooded fields and mudslides.
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East Africa regularly experiences episodes of flooding during the rainy seasons.
By May 2020, at least 65 people had died in Rwanda, as East Africa was hit by heavy seasonal rains that also claimed at least 194 lives in Kenya.
At the end of 2019, two months of incessant rains causing floods and mudslides had killed at least 265 people and displaced hundreds of thousands in the region, particularly in Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda South Sudan.
