Addis Ababa city spokeswoman Dagmawit Moges said most of the 46 dead were women and children, and more bodies were expected to be found in the coming hours. It was not immediately clear what caused Saturday night’s collapse at the Koshe Garbage Landfill, which buried several makeshift homes and concrete buildings. Now I don’t know the fate of all of them.”The resumption of garbage dumping at the site in recent months likely caused the landslide, Assefa said. City officials say close to 300,000 tons of waste are collected each year from the capital, most of it dumped at the landfill. City officials in recent years have been trying to turn the garbage into a source of clean energy with a$120 million investment.

Source: Ethiopian News March 13, 2017 07:19 UTC