DAKAR, Senegal — The bodies floated down the streets and piled up at the morgue, where the coroners struggled to find room for all of the dead. An already devastating flood the day before produced even more anguish on Tuesday in Sierra Leone as residents of Freetown, the capital, dug through the mud in search of missing family members. One worker at the city’s morgue, who was not authorized to speak to reporters, said he had seen as many as 400 bodies there. Residents of the poor communities built into the capital city’s unstable hillsides suffered the most. PhotoOn Tuesday, Save the Children, an aid organization, said that one of its staff members and his young children were among the hundreds missing.

Source: New York Times August 15, 2017 19:50 UTC