Landslides kill 146 in Ethiopia – authorities reveal

Local officials have said that the number of people killed in landslides in southern Ethiopia has risen to at least 146.
Two incidents are thought to have occurred on Sunday evening and Monday morning, after heavy rains in a remote mountainous area of the Gofa zone.
The local authority said the search for survivors was “continuing vigorously” but that the “death toll could yet increase.”
Footage showed hundreds of people gathered at the scene and others digging in the dirt in search of people trapped underneath.
In the background, a hillside can be seen partially collapsed and a large patch of red earth has been exposed.

Meskir Mitku, the general administrator of the Gofa zone, said women, children, and police officers were among the casualties.
The government spokesperson for the Gofa district Kassahun Abayneh said there was a heavy rain Sunday night and some people died from a landslide.
He said in the morning on Monday, locals, including police, gathered at the site to save those who were affected by the first landslide, when the second landslide happened around 10:00 [07:00 GMT] and those who gathered there died.

Source:onuaonline.com