Kintele Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/kintele/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 01 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Kintele Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/kintele/ 32 32 Lightning strike kills 20 in Brazzaville https://jjcornish.com/2020/04/lightning-strike-kills-20-in-brazzaville/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/04/lightning-strike-kills-20-in-brazzaville/ A lightning strike sent power cables crashing down killing at least 20 people in the Congolese capital Brazzaville. Some of the injured had to be taken to hospital in private cars because the ambulances could not cope. It was before dawn in the Brazzaville suburb of Kintele when the lightning struck. Residents were about to […]

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]]> A lightning strike sent power cables crashing down killing at least 20 people in the Congolese capital Brazzaville.

Some of the injured had to be taken to hospital in private cars because the ambulances could not cope.

It was before dawn in the Brazzaville suburb of Kintele when the lightning struck.

Residents were about to wake on the first day of their lockdown to curb the COVID19 pandemic.

Eyewitnesses said a falling cable struck a house, starting a fire that killed the occupants.

Heavy rain hampered the rescue work.

People were urged to stay away from the disaster area and the Talangai Reference Hospital treating the injured.

The Republic of Congo has 22 confirmed cases of COVID 19.

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