Meselesh Gosaye's home area in Ethiopia was hit by two landslides that buried hundreds under the mud.
Meselesh Gosaye, a mother of six, was in her hilltop home in southern Ethiopia’s Gofa district caring for her children when she heard the landslide that left many trapped in the mud.
The string of settlements are characterised by mud-walled, tin-roofed houses, some on or near the top of the lush slopes. Other villages - including the one buried by the landslide - are clustered at the foot of the hills. In the following hours many others came. But they had limited success - a few people were pulled out alive, many more remained trapped.Seeing that a lot more manpower and effort were required, officials from the locality began mobilising help.
Unable to control her emotions, she hastened to the land that engulfed her husband and her children. But someone stopped her reminding her it was still dangerous.In the following hours, news of the double tragedy was heard across the villages and towns close by.Families were scrambling looking for their missing loved ones. Some - including the head of the locality who was mobilising residents after the first landslide - were quickly confirmed dead.
"His face was unrecognisable. To be sure, I checked his chest pocket because I knew he kept his ID card there. It was him. I screamed.”
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