At least 129 individuals have been killed after torrential rain brought about flooding in Rwanda.

The variety of lifeless "continues to rise" after flooding and mudslides have been attributable to heavy rain that began final week, the Rwanda Broadcasting Agency mentioned.

The seek for extra victims is underway following extra excessive climate by the evening.

"This could be the highest disaster-induced death toll to be recorded in the country in the shortest period, according to available records from recent years," the government-backed New Times newspaper reported.

The hilly landscapes of the western and northern provinces of the nation and the capital, Kigali, make them weak to landslides in the course of the wet season.

Even extra rain is predicted, in response to the Rwanda Meteorology Agency.

It follows the demise of three individuals who, final week, drowned in floods within the distant district of Rukungiri, in Rwanda's neighbour, Uganda.

From January to April 60 individuals have been killed in weather-related disasters, round 1,205 homes and 5,000 acres of land throughout the nation have been destroyed.

In the previous, the federal government has requested residents in wetland areas to evacuate.