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muriel_volestrangler

(102,047 posts) Tue Jul 23, 2024, 06:53 AM Jul 23

Ethiopia landslides kill 146 - officials

Two incidents are thought to have occurred on Sunday evening and Monday morning, after heavy rains in a remote mountainous area of the Gofa zone.
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Southern Ethiopia is among the areas of the country that have been hit by particularly heavy rain and flooding in recent months, according to the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha).

But instances of landslides and floods go back further. In May 2016, at least 50 people were killed in floods and landslides following heavy rain across the south of the country.

Many factors contribute to flooding, but a warming atmosphere caused by climate change makes extreme rainfall more likely.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c728l7ng2q0o

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Wed Jul 24, 2024, 11:59 AM

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The search for those engulfed by landslides in southern Ethiopia continues with people using shovels and their bare hands to dig through mud as fears grow that the number of dead could rise beyond the 229 bodies already found.

Drones are being used by emergency teams to search for possible survivors in a remote mountainous area of the Gofa zone, an official told the AFP news agency.

The head of the UN’s humanitarian office in Ethiopia (Ocha) told the BBC that heavy rains caused a landslide on Sunday evening. A second one occurred on Monday morning, burying those who had gathered to help – and there had been a third on Tuesday.

Paul Handley said as the rain had not stopped there were concerns about the stability of the slope and 10,000 people in the area needed to be evacuated “out of harm’s way”.

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