Kenya’s NAIROBI (AP) Relief officials reported Thursday that 40 homes in six villages were buried by landslides in eastern Uganda, resulting in at least 13 fatalities.
Thirteen dead have been found, according to the Uganda Red Cross Society, and the search is still ongoing.
Authorities anticipate that the death toll may reach 30, according to local media.
In the mountainous district of Bulambuli, where landslides are frequent, the landslides occurred on Wednesday night following intense rainfall.
Local officials promised to send an excavator to help with the rescue attempts, but the roads were muddy and the rain was still falling, a journalist in the region told The Associated Press.
Uganda Red Cross workers search for bodies after a landslide following heavy rains buried 40 homes in the mountainous district of Bulambuli, eastern Uganda, Thursday, Nov. 28. 2024. (AP Photo/Irene Nakasiita)
Image courtesy of Irene Nakasiita/Associated Press
About 50 acres (20 hectares) of farms and homesteads dispersed downhill make up the impacted area.
Major roads have been shut off by torrential rains around the nation, according to a disaster alert released by the prime minister’s office on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, while on a rescue attempt on the River Nile where the Pakwach bridge was underwater, two rescue boats overturned.
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