Mudslide or landslide have killed over 229 people in the Southern Ethiopia of Gofa district, local authorities said on Tuesday.
The landslide occurred on Monday morning during a heavy rain burying alot of people in the community alive.
It was gathered that the deadly landslide occurred on Monday morning at around 10:00am local time in southern Ethiopia’s Geze Gofa district.
A government official in Ethiopia’s Gofa District said rescuers searching for victims of a landslide got trapped themselves, pushing up the death toll which was still growing as of Monday.
At least 229 bodies were pulled from the mud between Monday and Tuesday afternoon following the two landslides in the southern Ethiopia, local authorities said.
Misikir Mitiku, the district general administrator of Gofa district in the Southern Ethiopia region, had on Monday said, women, children and local police were among the dead, the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) reported.
Video from the scene showed rescuers digging with tools and their bare hands to find survivors and recover the dead, as grieving people gathered at the site.
According to a local administrator, Dagmawi Ayele, young children and pregnant women were among the victims in Kencho Shacha Gozdi district of southern Ethiopia.
Ayele as reported by AP news said that at least five people have been pulled out alive.
Those killed included many people who tried to rescue survivors, according to local authorites.
It was gathered that many rescue team workers are missing and yet to be accounted for.
On Tuesday, children were seen hugging corpses having lost their entire family members including mother, father , brother and sister, Markos Melese, the Director of the Disaster Response Agency in Gofa Zone stated this as reported by AP news agency on Tuesday.
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