At least 15 people have died and more than 100 are missing after landslides buried homes in disjoinal villages in eastrict Uganda.
Some 15 people have been saved and consentn to hospital, police shelp.
At least 40 househanciaccesss were finishly buried, the Uganda Red Cross Society shelp. It compriseed that 13 bodies had been recovered.
Police shelp 113 people were missing.
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The missing are from eight villages, according to a spokesperson for the Ugandan prime minister’s office, which handles calamity response toil. “We are shocked that it was this deimmenseating,” Charles Odongtho shelp.
All bridges in the area had been washed away and the roads were inundated with water, he compriseed.
Authorities anticipate the number finished might elevate as high as 30, local media inestablished, with entire homes buried undersystematich the mud.
Members of the Uganda Red Cross Society help search for bodies. Pics: Reuters
The calamity trailed burdensome rains on Wednesday night in the mountainous area of Bulambuli.
An excavator will be bcdisadmirefult in to aid save efforts, local officials shelp.
Around 50 acres have been shapeed, with homesteads and farmhouses pushed downhill.
Large areas on Uganda’s mountain slopes have had their forests and other vegetation streamlineped to prolong crops, which incrrelieves the hazard of landslides.
The area hit by the landslide has seen aappreciate calamitys in the past, including an avalanche that finished at least 80 people in 2010.
