Death toll in mudslide at Guinea rubbish dump rises to 10 -official

Record ID: 907517

  • Title: Death toll in mudslide at Guinea rubbish dump rises to 10 -official
  • Date: 23rd August 2017
  • Summary: DAR ES SALAM, CONAKRY, GUINEA (AUGUST 23, 2017) (REUTERS) DIGGERS MOVING RUBBISH BEHIND WALL OF BUILDING DESTROYED BY MUDSLIDE DIGGERS MOVING RUBBISH DIGGER BUCKET SCRAPING FLOOR BY BUILDINGS WATER RUNNING NEXT TO RUBBISH PILE AND BUILDINGS SOLDIER STANDING ON RUBBISH PILE NEXT TO DIGGER CIVIL PROTECTION STAFF ON SITE STANDING BEHIND MEMBERS OF PUBLIC (SOUNDBITE) (French) LOCAL RESIDENT, ABOUBACAR CAMARA, SAYING: "We don't like the rubbish being here but how can we move out? The state needs to take charge and build a proper fertiliser factory so that the trucks don't come and dump it here. Unless they do that, there will be more damage. We want the state to understand us and build a factory because it's in their power to do so." DIGGER MOVING RUBBISH PILE AS PEOPLE STAND AROUND WATCHING PEOPLE STANDING ON HILL NEAR SITE OF MUDSLIDE
  • Embargoed: 6th September 2017 14:36
  • Keywords: Guinea mudslide rubbish dump kills eight Dar Es Salam Conakry weather disasters floods
  • Location: DAR ES SALAM, CONAKRY, GUINEA
  • City: DAR ES SALAM, CONAKRY, GUINEA
  • Country: Guinea
  • Topics: Disaster/Accidents
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016VDOTHJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: A Guinea Ministry of Security spokesman said on Wednesday (August 23) 10 people died in a mudslide when a landfill site collapsed on houses in a Conakry neighbourhood on Monday (August 21), revising an initial figure of eight dead.
    Rescuers were still on the scene of Tuesday's (August 22) the mudslide a day later, looking for survivors. The source added that up to 10 people were also injured.
    The incident occurred in the morning at the Dar Es Salam neighbourhood after an overnight deluge of torrential rain, police and government officials said.
    The spokesman for the Ministry of Security, Boubacar Kasse, said nine bodies had been recovered on Tuesday and a tenth victim, a young girl, was found on Wednesday morning.
    Shifting rainfall patterns, rampant deforestation and expanding urban populations are increasing the risk of deadly mudslides across west and central Africa, experts have said.
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