Death toll in DR Congo landslide climbs to 140

Fishing on Lake Albert is one of the main occupations in Ituri province, northeast DR Congo, which borders Uganda Photo: AFP

The death toll from a landslide that swept over a fishing village on the banks of a lake in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo has reached 140, the government said Monday.

"We estimate that there at least a hundred bodies buried underneath the rumble of large rocks that fell on the 48 destroyed homes," the deputy governor of Ituri Province, Pacifique Keta, told AFP.