Rescuers aided by drones search for survivors after Ethiopian landslides kill 229.
In this grab made from a handout footage released by the Gofa Zone Government Communication Affairs Department on July 22, 2024, shows people standing at the bottom of a landslide that occurred in the Geze-Gofa district.
About 14,000 people need to be evacuated from the area urgently because of the risk of further landslides, a UN source told AFP. The number of people still missing is not known, but Senait said updated tolls might be issued later Wednesday. “I am deeply saddened by this terrible loss,” Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had said on X on Tuesday in his first reaction to the calamity.
The US embassy sent its condolences in a message on X and said the government via its USAID agency was in touch with humanitarian partners on the ground.The EDRMC official Firaol Bekele had told AFP on Tuesday that several residents had tried to save lives after four households were initially affected by a mudslide.He said there needed to be a “solid assessment and scientific investigation” into the cause of the landslide, which officials said was in an area prone to such disasters.
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