At least 25 people have been killed in a landslide triggered by a huge landfill in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, according to local authorities who do not expect to find survivors under the mountains of waste. Homes, animals and people have been buried under mountains of trash. The landslide was caused by heavy rainfall. Only the dead have been recovered. Rescue crews continue to search without hope of finding survivors, according to local media. The landfill, created in 1996, receives almost all of Kampala’s garbage. A lot of people live and make a living there looking in the garbage for something that can be sold. Now the authorities have announced that a protection zone will be created around the dump. More than 1,000 people were evacuated from their accommodation in the narrow periphery of the dump after the landslide. President Yoweri Museveni ordered special police forces to join the investigations and asked “who is it that allowed people to live near […]
Source: News Beast
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