By AFP More by this AuthorABIDJANThirteen people died Thursday while others including children were missing and feared dead in a mudslide which flattened homes and suspended rail tracks in a suburb of Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan. Residents said several children were dead or missing in the teeming suburb of Anyama, north of the coastal city. Advertisement"The provisional death toll is 13 and searches are continuing," Abidjan's prefect Vincent Toh Bi said without specifying whether the figure included children. He added that a drainage tunnel had been clogged up for months, and a reservoir of water had formed. The city is home to some five million people, many of whom live in precarious shantytowns in flood-prone or dangerous zones.

Source: Daily Nation June 19, 2020 03:11 UTC