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Hundreds of children were separated from their families during the chaos and panic that took place in the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, following the eruption of the volcano, Mount Nyiragongo, on Saturday.

The humanitarian agency, UNICEF, says it's so far found the parents of 360 of the 530 unaccompanied children it rescued after the eruption. It's continuing to try to reunite the rest of the children.

But even when the children are back with their parents, many of their families will have lost everything. And now there's concern that a lack of clean water could lead to a cholera outbreak.

The Chief Field Officer of UNICEF, Jean Metenier, was in Goma at the time of the eruption - as well as for the previous one in 2002.

"The main water supply has been partially cut off from the town and so thousands and thousands of people have been cut off from water. The population is currently getting water from the lake...and so we're setting up very quickly some chlorination sites in different parts of the town where water is very scarce in order to ensure that people can have safe drinking water."

(Photo: Two lone children walk in the street on the night of the eruption. Credit: AFP)

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