Red Cross workers have sounded the alarm about a lack of supplies and equipment to assist more than 8,800 affected residents in east Congo
where floods killed more than 400 people last week, a local official said on Tuesday, as shaken survivors waited for food aid.
Mass graves were dug over the weekend to dispose of the dead, many of whom were women and children, prompting complaints from some civil society groups who said the burials were undignified. Kalehe administrator Thomas Bakenga Zirimwabagabo said on Tuesday that 411 bodies had been found so far and that at least 5,525 people were still missing.
Government officials have told humanitarian workers to stop mass burials and wait for coffins to be delivered to the area.
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