SW News: In two towns in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where floods last week claimed more than 400 lives in one of the worst tragedies in the nation's recent memory, bodies were still being found on Monday.

Videos shared online over the weekend show survivors watching as aid workers heaped bodies into recently dug mass graves.

The communities of Bushushu and Nyamukubi, both in South Kivu province, where days of torrential rain caused landslides and led rivers to break their banks on Thursday, have seen days of labor recovering mud-caked dead bodies.
Theo Ngwabidje Kasi, the governor of South Kivu, announced early on Monday that the death toll has increased to just over 400, more than doubling since Friday.

Sources from the local civil society anticipate it to increase further because remains are still submerged in the wreckage and floating in rivers. The United Nations estimates that hundreds of people are still missing.
The Congolese Red Cross has said that 274 people, including 98 women and 82 children, have been killed so far. The floods, which destroyed homes, schools, and blocked off highways, also had an effect on almost 8,800 other people, it claimed. Concerns about sanitation are being raised by damaged sewage systems and bodies lying among garbage, it claimed.

According to the Red Cross, families have been split up and terrified survivors are seeking safety in other people's homes. There is no current death toll provided by the Kinshasa-based central administration. It designated Monday as a day of national mourning and dispatched a delegation to the region.
The UN climate experts have warned that warming temperatures brought on by climate change are causing Africa's rains to pour more heavily and more frequently.