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Fears for 600 still missing in Sierra Leone floods
Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma fought back tears on Tuesday as he visited the devastated hilltop community of Regent, saying the scale of the challenge ahead was “overwhelming us”
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 16, 2017 | World
As 600 people remain missing, and thousands left homeless international concerns shifted towards the recently announced fact of at least a third of the casualties of the devastating Sierra Leone mudslide being children. Officials at Freetown’s central morgue...
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Homes were buried after a deluge of mud poured down a hillside (Image: @scccsierraleone/Twitter)
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 14, 2017 | World
Hundreds of people have likely been killed in a mudslide on Monday in the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital, Vice President Victor Foh said. “It is likely that hundreds are lying dead underneath the rubble,” Foh told Reuters at the scene of the...
