Death toll in SLeone flood disaster reaches 441
Men wait beside empty graves for the coffins of mudslide victims at Waterloo cemetery, near Freetown (AFP Photo/SEYLLOU)/ Freetown (AFP) - The death toll from a mudslide and flooding that struck Sierra Leone's capital Freetown has reached 441, the government said on Saturday. "Four hundred and forty-one corpses (were) buried as at yesterday," the deputy minister of information and communication, Cornelius Deveaux, told AFP, adding that the number of missing was "still being calculated." A tally of deaths, issued on Friday by the Red Cross, ...
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