Congo’s Mount Nyiragongo volcano erupted over the weekend. This is what it looked like.

Congo’s Mount Nyiragongo volcano erupted over the weekend. This is what it looked like.

Mount Nyiragongo erupts in Goma, Congo, on Saturday, May 22. Justin Kabumba/AP

Hundreds of children are feared missing or were separated from their families after Mount Nyiragongo erupted in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Sunday that the children were lost amid chaos as residents fled the nearby city of Goma. More than 150 children have been separated from their families and more than 170 children are feared to be missing, the agency said.

Around 8,000 people crossed into Rwanda from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)…

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