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JUST IN: More Than 300 People Dead as Floods And Mudslide Hits Sierra Leone (Photos)
A mudslide near Sierra Leone’s capital city of Freetown has likely killed hundreds of people, according to the West African country’s vice president.
The incident happened when a hillside in the Regent area of Freetown collapsed Monday morning, sending mud sliding down and covering houses where people were sleeping.
“It’s likely that hundreds are lying dead underneath the rubble,” Vice President Victor Foh told Reuters.
“The disaster is so serious that I myself feel broken,” said Foh. Authorities were trying to cordon off the area and evacuate people, he added.
An official at a mortuary in Freetown, Sinneh Kamara told the national broadcaster that more than 200 bodies had been brought in and were being stored on the morgue’s floor, since the facility did not have capacity for all the corpses.
The mudslide followed heavy rains in Sierra Leone, a poor country where the infrastructure was already devastated by the outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa between 2013 and 2016, which killed almost 4,000 people in the country and more than 11,000 people in total.
Images shared on social media showed people wading through chest-high streams of muddy brown water in the area.
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