ADDIS ABABA: Rescuers aided by drones were continuing a desperate search on Wednesday for possible survivors of devastating landslides in an isolated ...
Residents dig to recover the dead body of a victim of the landslide following heavy rains that buried people in Gofa zone, Southern Ethiopia - AFPpix: Rescuers aided by drones were continuing a desperate search on Wednesday for possible survivors of devastating landslides in an isolated area of southern Ethiopia that have killed 229 people and affected thousands more.
Local residents have been using shovels and their bare hands to dig through the vast mounds of mud to hunt for victims and survivors of the landslides in Kencho Shacha Gozdi, a hard-to-access locality in the regional state of South Ethiopia hundreds of kilometres from the capital Addis Ababa. The number of people still missing is not known, but Senait said updated tolls might be issued later Wednesday.
The UN source told AFP that about 125 people had been displaced, and that the 14,000, including 5,000 pregnant or lactating women and 1,300 children needed to be evacuated fast because of the risk of another landslide.More than 21 million people or about 18 percent of the population rely on humanitarian aid in Ethiopia, the second most populous country in Africa, as a result of conflict and natural disasters such as flooding and drought.
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is Ethiopian, sent a message of condolence on X and said a WHO team was being deployed to support immediate health needs. “An integrated, study-based solution is needed to address the risk permanently. This may include relocating the population.”
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