Death toll in Sierra Leone flood disaster reaches 441


Mass graves are prepared in Waterloo for those who perished in a mudslide, in Sierra Leone. Burials are being prepared for more than 400 people who died in the flood disaster, and a search continues for 600 still unaccounted for. – EPA pic, August 20, 2017.

THE death toll from a mudslide and flooding that struck Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown has reached 441, the government said yesterday.

“Four hundred and forty-one corpses (were) buried as at yesterday (Friday),” the deputy minister of information and communication, Cornelius Deveaux, told AFP, adding that the number of missing was “still being calculated.”


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