DRC: Bukavu residents reel in aftermath of deadly school blaze

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.

The blaze began in a home in Cimpunda, in Bukavu’s Kadutu municipality, before spreading rapidly through neighbouring buildings, reaching two primary schools and destroying more than 300 homes, according to a provisional toll…