DRC: Bukavu residents reel in aftermath of deadly school blaze
For families in Cimpunda, the immediate reality is already devastating: 24 children dead, 29 people injured and hundreds of homes destroyed.
The speed with which the Cimpunda blaze spread from a single home to schools and hundreds of houses is likely to fuel questions about building conditions, access for emergency services and fire-safety measures in densely populated neighbourhoods.
At least 24 people, all schoolchildren, have died and 29 others have been injured after a fire tore through a densely populated neighbourhood in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on Thursday morning.
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