Sierra Leone buries its dead: “We’ve never seen anything like this” says Tearfund worker

Aug 18, 2017 by

by Mark Woods, Christian Today.

People in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown are in a ‘desperate situation’ following days of torrential rain that has overwhelmed the city and caused a mudslide that engulfed part of a nearby town, according to a Tearfund worker there.

Hundreds of people died in what is being described as one of Africa’s worst flood disasters when a mountainside collapsed on the town of Regent, while Freetown is battling against floods that have killed many more…

…Gaston Slanwa, Tearfund’s country representative in Sierra Leone, described the scene for Christian Today. He said: ‘I drove around Freetown yesterday and saw several houses had disappeared, roads completely gone. On one bridge I saw two people who were already dead being pulled out of the water then put in the ambulance right before my eyes.

Slanwa said: ‘Tearfund has been working here for nearly 20 years and Freetown has never seen anything like this. It is a desperate situation.

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See also: Mass burial for Sierra Leone mudslide victims, BBC news

 

 

 

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