South Ethiopia has been battered by the short seasonal rains between April and early May that have caused flooding and mass displacement.
A man reacts while after residents and volunteers left for the night after digging in the mud in search for survivors and bodies at the scene of a landslide in Gofa on July 24, 2024. / Photo: AFP
The disaster occurred on Monday following heavy rains in a tiny community in a mountainous area of South Ethiopia regional state. The last toll, given by the local authority on Tuesday, was 229. At the scene in Kencho Shacha Gozdi, hundreds of people combed through the sodden red mud as they searched for survivors of the deadliest landslide recorded in Africa's second most populous country.
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