{"id":100479,"date":"2024-07-23T19:10:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T19:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/23\/at-least-229-dead-after-landslides-in-ethiopia-as-people-killed-while-trying-to-save-those-buried-under-mud\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T19:10:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T19:10:08","slug":"at-least-229-dead-after-landslides-in-ethiopia-as-people-killed-while-trying-to-save-those-buried-under-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/23\/at-least-229-dead-after-landslides-in-ethiopia-as-people-killed-while-trying-to-save-those-buried-under-mud\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 229 dead after landslides in Ethiopia – as people killed while trying to save those buried under mud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At least 229 people have been killed after two landslides in as many days in Ethiopia, with young children and pregnant women reported to be among the dead, a government official has said.<\/p>\n

Some were killed as they tried to rescue people, local authorities said, in what the prime minister called a “terrible loss.”<\/p>\n

The first landslide followed heavy rain on Sunday, before a second buried others who had gathered to help on Monday – when the number of dead stood at 50 people.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know when it will stop. We are still recovering bodies,” said Markos Melese, director of the disaster response agency in Gofa Zone.<\/p>\n

“There are children who are hugging corpses, having lost their entire family, including mother, father, brother and sister.”<\/p>\n

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Dagmawi Ayele, a local administrator, said at least five people have been pulled out alive and pregnant women were killed with young children.<\/p>\n

Footage shared by the local authorities showed people digging up bodies with shovels and bare hands.<\/p>\n

Some women wailed as rescuers attempted to dig through the thick mud.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said he was deeply saddened by the “terrible loss” and federal officials had been deployed.<\/p>\n

The number of people missing is not clear.<\/p>\n

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The head of the World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is Ethiopian, said he was thinking of all the families affected and a WHO team has been dispatched.<\/p>\n

Landslides are common during Ethiopia’s rainy season, which started in July and is expected to last until mid-September.<\/p>\n

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They often occur in the wider East African region, from Uganda’s mountainous east to central Kenya’s highlands.<\/p>\n

In April, at least 45 people were killed in Kenya’s Rift Valley<\/a><\/strong> region when flash floods and a landslide swept through houses and cut off a major road.<\/p>\n

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