At least 50 people have been killed in landslides in southern Ethiopia, according to local officials. The local authority said the search for survivors was “continuing vigorously” but that the “death toll could yet increase”. “There was a heavy rain yesterday [Sunday] night and some people died from a landslide,” government spokesperson for the Gofa district in the South Ethiopia regional state, Kassahun Abayneh, said. SNNPR is among the areas of the country that have been hit by particularly heavy rain and flooding in recent months, according to the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha). In May 2016, at least 50 people were killed in floods and landslides following heavy rain across the south of the country.
Source: Nigerian Tribune July 23, 2024 19:29 UTC