At least 30 people have been killed and dozens more hurt in a giant landslide at Ethiopia’s largest rubbish dump, officials have said. Dozens of homes of squatters who lived in the Koshe landfill site, on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, were flattened when the largest pile of rubbish collapsed on Saturday. Many of the victims were squatters who scavenged for a living in the dump, she said. People had built the houses about two to three years ago, said Berhanu Degefe, a rubbish collector who lives at the dump but whose home was not destroyed. Read moreKoshe, whose name means “dirt” in local slang, was closed last year by city authorities who asked people to move to a new dump site outside Addis Ababa.

Source: Ethiopian News March 12, 2017 15:52 UTC