Soldiers launched a massive operation to rescue people
More than 200 people died as a result of landslides and intense flooding in Sierra Leone.
About it reports The Telegraph.
The landslide and flooding have led to the fact that part of Sierra Leone including the capital Freetown, was flooded. According to descriptions of eyewitnesses, the house was almost completely submerged in the mud, and roads turned into “shoot down rivers of mud”.
The representative of the morgue said that more than 200 bodies of the victims were brought to the city morgue, which is much higher than its capacity.
Sinem Kamara, an employee of the morgue in the hospital Connaught, local media reported that the number of dead far exceeds the capabilities of the morgue.
“The capacity of the morgue is too small for so many bodies,” he said.
The national television company of Sierra Leone has interrupted its regular broadcasts to warn people of danger and to show the terrible consequences of the tragedy. The company showed how people are looking for their people in the impenetrable mud, and some will carry the bodies of their loved ones in the sacks of rice to the morgue.
Soldiers launched a massive operation to rescue people early Monday morning, August 14.
At Victor, Vice President of Sierra Leone, confirmed that “hundreds of people probably died in the mud.”
Floods are a regular problem in Sierra Leone, where an unstable design houses often washed away by torrential rains. Many of the impoverished areas close to sea level and have poor drainage systems which exacerbates flooding during the rainy season in West Africa.
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