Landslides in northern Ethiopia kill 23

  27 August 2024    Read: 708
Landslides in northern Ethiopia kill 23

A series of landslides in northern Ethiopia have killed 23 people and driven about 2,700 from their homes, regional authorities said, AzVision.az reports citing AFP.

The United Nations humanitarian response agency, OCHA, said heavy rains were causing floods, landslides and destruction across several regions of Ethiopia, the second most populous country in Africa.

The latest landslides struck in four districts in the North Gondar Zone of Amhara, the region's disaster prevention office said, adding that 23 people had died while eight were injured.

It did not specify the dates, but regional media on Saturday said a landslide had claimed the lives of 10 people.

Ethiopia, where about three quarters of the 120-million strong population live in rural areas, is often hit by climate-related disasters.

Massive mudslides hit a remote community in Kencho Shacha Gozdi in the south of the country in July in the worst such incident in the nation's recorded history.

OCHA on July 25 put the death toll at 256 and warned it could rise to 500, but five days later it said 236 people had perished.

A week after that tragedy, six people were killed in the neighbouring Sidama regional state, local officials said.

Earlier this month, at least 11 people died in a landslide in the Wolaita administrative zone, also in southern Ethiopia.

The season of "long" rains began across much of Ethiopia in June and is due to last until September.

 

AzVision.az


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