Landslide at landfill in Guinea kills 30 people, government says
Heavy train triggered the landslide at the waste mound. The government had issued eviction orders to local residents living near the landfill in the days leading up to the incident out of fear for a collapse.
A landslide at a landfill in Guinea's capital, Conakry, has killed 30 people, according to the government. The disaster occurred in the Dar-es-Salam area, where a mound of rubbish collapsed onto nearby homes at around 02:00 local time, following heavy rain overnight.
The government has deployed "significant" resources and personnel, including the military, to search for survivors. At least 22 people were injured, including six seriously. One woman reported that her five children had died in the disaster.
Rescuers used excavators to search through the scattered rubbish at the site. Neighbourhood leader Lancine Sylla told the AFP news agency that 18 bodies had been pulled out and taken to the morgue. This is not the first landslide at the site, which killed 10 people in 2017.
Brief written by urgent.news from Euronews, KahawaTungu, The Korea Times, MyJoyOnline Ghana, The Japan News by The Yomiuri Shimbun — 5 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
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