Two killed in Congo quake

A POWERFUL earthquake toppled homes onto children in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo today, killing at least two people in a region already beset by war, poverty and volcanoes.

Dr Jean-Donne Owali said two people died from injuries in his clinic in lakeside Kalemie, DRC, 35 miles from the epicentre.

“Dozens of houses have collapsed, several children were buried by the roofs of their houses,” Owali said.