No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

More than 50 people are dead after landslides caused the collapse of three artisanal gold mines near the city of Kamituga in eastern Congo's South Kivu province on Friday, officials said.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Congo, Yemen, northeast Nigeria and South Sudan rank ``among the largest food crises in the world.''

The official, Kiza Muhato, said about 45 other people were injured and about 3,500 homes were destroyed when the Mulongwe river flooded in Uvira city on Friday.

WHO noted that two large epidemics in New York are over but small outbreaks elsewhere in the U.S. continue.

The aircraft crashed into residential homes near Goma's airport in the North Kivu province. Black smoke rose from the plane, whose wreckage could be seen amid destroyed homes as dozens of men tried to help with the rescue efforts.

The death toll from the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has climbed over 2,000.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said Thursday the aircraft will be supported by as many as 25 Canadian Armed Forces personnel.

A second person has died of Ebola in Goma, a city of two million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The United States, Britain and Germany had all donated generously, but other members of the G7 group of countries needed to do more, said British minister Rory Stewart.