. Landslides bury six family members in Uganda
At least 109 people have died in flooding in northern and western Rwanda, yesterday.
While 95 people perished in the hardest-hit
Western Province and another 14 in Northern Province, floodwaters swept away
homes and infrastructure and led to road closures.
Authorities say the
areas were submerged in flood after a heavy down pour that lasted all night.
Images posted on Rwandan Broadcasting Authority’s
Twitter account showed houses destroyed, roads cut off by landslides and
flooded fields.
“The rain that fell last night caused
disaster in the Northern and Western Provinces. Currently, the provisional
figures published by the administration of these provinces say that 109 people
have been declared dead,” the post reads.
Minister in charge of emergency management,
Marie Solange Kayisire, said: “relief efforts began immediately, including
helping to bury victims of the disaster and providing supplies to those whose
homes were destroyed.”
Meanwhile, in neighbouring Uganda, six people
died when landslides struck their homes after days of torrential rain.
Red Cross sources said five of the dead
belonged to the same family and were from a single village.
It will be recalled that in May 2020, at
least 65 people died in Rwanda as heavy rains pounded East Africa, while at
least 194 deaths were reported in Kenya.
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