The demise toll from two landslides in southern Ethiopia has risen sharply to 157 and the quantity may enhance additional, a authorities official mentioned on Tuesday.
A landslide buried folks in Gofa zone in Southern Ethiopia regional state, then a second one engulfed others who had gathered to assist on Monday morning, officers mentioned.
“Looking nonetheless occurring and there are our bodies which are but to be recovered. The world could be very difficult,” Markos Melese, head of the Nationwide Catastrophe Response company in Gofa Zone, advised Reuters by cellphone.
“We’ve got to this point recovered 157 our bodies from two villages … We imagine the quantity will enhance.”
On Monday, a official mentioned not less than 50 folks had died and youngsters and law enforcement officials had been among the many lifeless.
