Graphic footage, uploaded to Twitter, shows panicked crowds moving through dead bodies in the Matadi Kibala district of Congo earlier today. People can be heard screaming as they wade through muddy water. The incident took place in a flooded market street.
The high-voltage cable snapped and fell onto nearby houses and people shopping near Congo’s capital Kinshasa.
It is not yet known was caused the power cable to break.
More than 30 people are thought to have been killed, according to eyewitness reports.
Police said that a number of people died on the spot.
“It is a high voltage pilon that fell on the Matadi Kibala market this morning.
“Witnesses evoke more than 30 deaths.”
Most of the bodies appear to be partially underwater, with some piled on top of others.
Fruit and other food products from nearby market stalls can be seen floating in the water.
Kinshasa‘s police chief Sylvano Kasongo said: “A high-voltage electric cable fell on several houses in the Matadi-Kibala district and in the market, several people died on the spot.”
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