DR Congo’s Goma volcano: ‘I couldn’t save my sick husband from the lava’

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Ernestine Kabuo returned home after fleeing the lava flow in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, to find that her husband had not survived. The 68 year old was unable to carry her sick husband out of their house and she found him burnt to death, she told Reuters news agency. At least 15 deaths have been confirmed following Saturday’s eruption of a nearby volcano, Mount Nyiragongo. But the lava stopped short of the city’s built-up area. This avoided the level of death and destruction witnessed in 2002. It did, however, hit the Buhene district, where Ms Kabuo’s home was. “I said to myself: I can’t go alone, we’ve been married for the best and for the worst,” she told Reuters reflecting on what happened on Saturday. “I went back to at least try to get him out but couldn’t. I ran away and he got burned inside. I don’t know what to do. I curse this day.”(BBC)…[+]