Torrential rain in eastern Uganda touched off a series of mudslides late Monday night, killing at least 83 people and causing devastation in villages, state emergency officials said.
A Ugandan boy walked through mud on Tuesday after a series of landslides sent mounds of earth hurtling toward villages in the district of Bududa, near the border with Kenya.
Three landslides sent mounds of earth hurtling toward villages in the district of Bududa along the slopes of Mount Elgon near the Kenyan border, destroying houses and other buildings.
The local community council said that 320 people were missing, government relief officials said, and so the death toll was expected to rise.
“Many are missing,” said Musa Ecweru, a state minister for natural disasters, who was in Bududa. “Members of local government are dead. A rich businessman was killed. Members of my own family are missing.”
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