At least 15 dead and more than 100 missing after Uganda landslides

At slightest 15 radical person died and much than 100 are missing aft landslides buried homes successful respective villages successful eastbound Uganda.

Some 15 radical person been rescued and taken to hospital, constabulary said.

At slightest 40 households were wholly buried, the Uganda Red Cross Society said. It added that 13 bodies had been recovered.

Police said 113 radical were missing.

The missing are from 8 villages, according to a spokesperson for the Ugandan premier minister's office, which oversees catastrophe effect work. "We are shocked that it was this devastating," Charles Odongtho said.

All bridges successful the country had been washed distant and the roads were inundated with water, helium added.

Authorities expect the fig killed mightiness emergence arsenic precocious arsenic 30, section media reported, with full homes buried underneath the mud.

The catastrophe followed dense rains connected Wednesday nighttime successful the mountainous country of Bulambuli.

An excavator volition beryllium brought successful to assistance rescue efforts, section officials said.

Around 50 acres person been affected, with homesteads and farmhouses pushed downhill.

Large areas connected Uganda's upland slopes person had their forests and different vegetation stripped to turn crops, which increases the hazard of landslides.

The country deed by the landslide has seen akin disasters successful the past, including an avalanche that killed astatine slightest 80 radical successful 2010.