Landfill collapse in Guinea kills at least 30 people
Heavy rains wash over the site, triggering a landslide that buries several shacks. A mountainous heap of refuse has collapsed at the largest landfill in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, killing at least 30 people, according to a goverment statement.
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- Fact 1: A mountainous heap of refuse has collapsed at the largest landfill in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, killing at least 30 people, according to a goverment statement.
- Fact 2: Six others were also seriously injured after heavy rains in the Bbessia district’s Dar-es-salam neighbourhood triggered a landslide at the landfill around 3 am (15:00 GMT) on Sunday, which buried nearby shacks.
- Fact 3: Landslide kills 13 at illegal gold mine in Colombia’s southwest Landslide at illegal gold mine kills 13 people in Colombia Peru rescues people trapped by landslides on highway for nearly a week ‘It was a tsunami’: Floods leave death trail in India’s Assam “Significant material and human resources have been deployed to search for any people who may still be buried, to rescue the victims and to recover the bodies,” the government said in the statement.
- Fact 4: “We have pulled out 18 bodies that were taken to the morgue,” he told the AFP news agency.
Heavy rains wash over the site, triggering a landslide that buries several shacks. A mountainous heap of refuse has collapsed at the largest landfill in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, killing at least 30 people, according to a goverment statement.
Six others were also seriously injured after heavy rains in the Bbessia district’s Dar-es-salam neighbourhood triggered a landslide at the landfill around 3 am (15:00 GMT) on Sunday, which buried nearby shacks. Landslide kills 13 at illegal gold mine in Colombia’s southwest Landslide at illegal gold mine kills 13 people in Colombia Peru rescues people trapped by landslides on highway for nearly a week ‘It was a tsunami’: Floods leave death trail in India’s Assam “Significant material and human resources have been deployed to search for any people who may still be buried, to rescue the victims and to recover the bodies,” the government said in the statement. Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah visited the site of the deadly accident, as excavators took part in a search-and-rescue operation through the collapsed landfill under the gaze of a crowd of onlookers.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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