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The death toll from landslides which hit several villages in eastern Uganda rose to 20, with more than 100 still unaccounted for, the Red Cross said Friday. The Red Cross said the toll had risen "following the retrieval of 19 bodies and the unfortunate passing of one survivor at the hospital," without giving an estimate…
23 Nov
A landslide triggered by heavy rains killed nine people, including a mother and her seven children, in the conflict-wracked eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said Saturday. The torrent of mud in the farming town of Nkubi also carried away homes, destroyed a structure owned by the local agricultural cooperative and devastated several fields, officials…
14 Aug
At least 39 people are still missing following a massive garbage landslide in the Ugandan capital Kampala at the weekend that has so far claimed 26 lives, police said Wednesday. The dump site in the northern district of Kiteezi collapsed on Saturday after torrential rains, burying people, homes and livestock in mountains of fetid rubbish.…
30 May
Survivors of a deadly Papua New Guinea landslide face a "significant risk of disease outbreak" and are yet to receive sufficient food and clean water supplies, a United Nations agency said Thursday.
27 May
Rescuers were racing against time to find any survivors after a landslide obliterated a Papua New Guinea village and killed an estimated 670 people, a UN official told AFP on Monday. The once-bustling hillside village in Enga province was almost wiped out when a chunk of Mount Mungalo collapsed in the early hours of Friday…
26 May
More than 670 people are believed to be dead after a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea, a UN official told AFP on Sunday as aid workers and villagers braved perilous conditions in their search for survivors.
14 Apr
At least 15 people have been found dead after a landslide in central Indonesia, local authorities said on Sunday.
19 Feb
A landslide caused by heavy snowfall has killed 25 people and injured eight others in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan, a disaster management ministry spokesman said on Monday.
7 Feb
At least six people were killed and 31 injured when a rain-induced landslide hit a gold-mining village in a mountainous region of the southern Philippines, officials said Wednesday. The landslide Tuesday night struck Masara in Davao de Oro province on Mindanao island, provincial disaster official Edward Macapili told AFP, destroying houses and engulfing two buses…
1 Feb
Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain have killed six people in the Philippines, with one other person missing, rescuers said Thursday.
25 Jan
The death toll from a landslide that struck in China's rugged southwest rose to 43 on Thursday, state media said, leaving just one victim still missing under the debris.
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