DR Congo’s Goma volcano: Desperate search for children missing after eruption

The lava that flowed from Mount Nyiragongo on Saturday evening cut a path of destruction through a northern district of Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Around 500 houses were flattened and the UN’s children’s agency, Unicef, says that more than 100 children are missing after having been separated from their parents. Charles Kambale  has been sorting through the rubble in the spot in Buhene district where his house used to be. “I have not seen my two youngest children yet,” he said. He was at a wedding with this wife when the eruption began. The children, six and two, were at home with his neighbours. He said he planned to make an announcement on the radio to help find them. Some children have been seen picking through the rubble nearby, looking for scraps of metal or burned pots to sell.(BBC)…[+]