How many people have been killed in the landslide which has just occurred in Uganda?
The number of people feared dead in Uganda, following the massive landslide which buried nearly 50 houses, is still elusive with some reporting 14 deaths, while other sources claiming more than 30 victims have perished.
“About 30 people are so far lost,” Faheera Mpalanyi the District Commissioner for Bulambuli told the French News Agency (AFP) after landslides struck Masugu village, adding that six bodies, including that of a baby, had been recovered so far.
The German International Broadcaster, Deutsche Welle reported that 13 people were killed.
And DW quoted the Red Cross spokesperson John Cliff Wamala who claimed that as many as 40 homes had been “completely destroyed, with others sustaining partial damage.”
Uganda has seen a number of deadly landslides in recent years.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) also sticks to 13 deaths.
Kenya’s Standard Newspaper wrote that 30 people have been killed by the landslide.
Uganda’s Daily Monitor reported that 8 people were dead and many others missing.
On the other hand, The New Vision of Uganda published that a total of eight bodies were indeed retrieved from the rockslide mounds.
Other sources report between 20 and 25 deaths, while the people who spoke to The Tanzania Times by phone from Uganda swore there could be hundreds.
However, observers fear that hundreds of people could have been buried in the mudslide.
Last August nearly 30 people were killed from a garbage slide which occurred in Uganda.
Around this time last year, a similar landslide was reported in the Hanang’ district of Manyara Region, in Northern Tanzania it buried more than 50 households and killed nearly 100 people at Katesh.