Uganda garbage landslide death toll rises to 30

By Agence France-Presse

Aug 15, 2024 6:33 pm

KAMPALA, Uganda — Six more bodies, including those of two children, were recovered on Wednesday from the site of a massive garbage landslide in the Ugandan capital Kampala, bringing the death toll so far to 30, police said.

Several dozen people are also still missing, police said, after the collapse at the landfill in the northern district of Kiteezi on Saturday that buried people, homes and livestock in mountains of fetid waste.

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