NNA - About 30 people were killed on Saturday after heavy rains fell in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and extensive material damage was also reported, according to local authorities.

"There are a large number of injured people who have been evacuated, and so far there are about 30 dead," Kinshasa's regional public health minister, Patricien Gongo Abakazi, told AFP.

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