A landslide in the Gamo Zone \u200bof southern Ethiopia earlier \u200cthis week has killed at least 52 people, regional officials said \u200bon Thursday.<\/p>\n
Another 50 people could \u200bbe missing. The landslide happened \u2060following heavy rains.<\/p>\n
“It has \u200bbeen confirmed that 52 people have \u200blost their lives, and efforts are continuing intensively to locate 50 people \u200bwhose whereabouts are unknown,” \u200bthe Gamo Zone communications office said in \u200ca \u2060statement on its Facebook page.<\/p>\n
The Southern Ethiopia regional state office also gave a death toll \u200bof \u200b52.<\/p>\n
A photo \u2060posted on Facebook by the Ethiopian Broadcasting \u200bCorporation showed residents standing \u200bat \u2060the scene of the landslide, with parts of a nearby \u2060hillside \u200bstripped of vegetation and \u200bsome people standing knee-deep in mud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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