(Rescue Workers, Soldiers, and Some Other Individuals discovering dead bodies after landslide in Sierra Leone)
Rescue workers have unearthed over 490 dead bodies since last
week’s devastating landslide near the Sierra Leone capital Freetown, the city’s
chief coroner told Reuters on Sunday.
One of Africa’s
worst flooding-related disasters in years occurred when the side of Mount Sugar
Loaf collapsed on Monday after heavy rain, burying parts of Regent town and
overwhelming relief efforts in one of the world’s poorest countries.
Authorities this week buried 461 bodies in quickly-dug graves in the nearby Waterloo cemetery, near the site of a mass burial for victims of the Ebola crisis that killed 4,000 people in the former British colony between 2014 and 2016.
Thirty-eight more
bodies were found on Sunday, said chief coroner Seneh Dumbuya, bringing the
official death toll to 499. They were being sent for immediate burial, he said.
The Red cross said that about 600 are still missing.
(Labourers digging graves for the mass burial of the victims)
An increasingly
desperate search continued on Sunday on the steep hillside under the wet red
mud, as the likelihood of finding survivors was all but extinguished.
We all from over here urge every one to remember them in your prayers and comfort for the loss. We pray their gentle souls to rest in Peace. Amen.
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