Sierra Leone mudslide: At least 600 still missing in Freetown

Nearly 400 are dead and 600 are still unaccounted for as rescue efforts continue in Freetown....
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• Rescue operation after mudslides BBC News Africa (Yesterday) - A rescue and recovery operation continues in Sierra Leone’s capital after mudslides kill more than... The country’s President, Ernest Bai Koroma, and other dignitaries are expected to attend the afternoon ceremony. Three days of torrential rain culminated on Monday in the Regent mudslide and massive flooding elsewhere in the city, one of the world`s wettest urban areas. Volunteers have been digging with pick axes and, at times, only their hands.More than 300 people are confirmed dead - a third of them children - and Red Cross officials estimate some 600 others remain missing more than 48 hours after the storm hit. According to the BBC, a mass burial of victims that had been scheduled for Wednesday in order to free up space in mortuaries has been delayed as the “chaotic” disaster continues to unfold. “Our thoughts and prayers are with all who have lost loved ones and those whose homes and livelihoods have been affected,” she said in a statement posted on her official Twitter account. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in New York the UN country team was "supporting national authorities in rescue operations, helping evacuate residents, providing medical assistance to the injured, registering survivors, and providing food rations, water and dignity kits to those affected." but I believe it's the work of God 'cause I don't know where the strength and power came from to get us out," he said.Amid the chaos of rescue efforts, the government has said contingency plans were being put in place to try to stem the outbreak of diseases such as cholera.Sierra Leone's government has pleaded for international assistance as it reels from yet another disaster just a couple of years after the Ebola outbreak that left thousands in the region dead.The threat of further mudslides around Freetown remained Wednesday. Around 600 people are still unaccounted for after heavy rains struck the Regent district in the early hours of Monday morning, causing torrents of mud to wash down Mount Sugar Loaf, about 5 miles outside the capital, Freetown, according to government officials and aid agencies. At least 100 houses were wiped out when a hillside in Regent, a mountain town some 15 miles east of Freetown, collapsed, submerging entire buildings and taking people with them. The United Nations said Tuesday it was evaluating humanitarian needs in Sierra Leone, while the first Israeli aid packages were sent and Britain pledged its support. Flooding is not uncommon in the overcrowded town of one million residents, leaving those who live in unsafe, makeshift housing especially at risk during natural disasters.
A mass burial of victims of the landslide is held in Freetown to free up space in mortuaries. Nearly 400 people are confirmed dead with at least 600 missing.