A landslide has swept over a fishing village on the banks of a lake in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 40 people, a regional official says.
Part of a mountain engulfed "a fisherman's camp after heavy rains caused a landslide," the deputy governor of Ituri province, Pacifique Keta, told AFP on Thursday.
He said 40 people were killed in the disaster in the village of Tora on the banks of Lake Albert on Wednesday.
"Yesterday (Wednesday), we buried 28 bodies and today we will bury 12 more," said Keta.
A doctor at the nearby Tshomia hospital, Herve Isamba, said they were treating four people injured in the landslide.
The vast country has experienced a number of previous such disasters.
Comment: Taken from a different angle this impressive photo of the cloud looks like a giant incoming fireball.