Nairobi, Kenya
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At least 21 individuals have died and 30 others are missing after a landslide on Saturday in Kenya’s western Rift Valley area, the place heavy rains have battered the world for days through the nation’s ongoing brief rains season.
More than 1,000 houses had been destroyed by the mudslides in the hilly space of (*30*) in Elgeyo Marakwet County, in western Kenya.
Several roads have been reduce off and the federal government airlifted 30 survivors with severe accidents to a hospital in Eldoret City.
Local resident Stephen Kittony informed the Citizen Television station that he heard a deafening sound and, collectively together with his youngsters, rushed out of their home and ran in totally different instructions.
Rescue efforts continued by way of Saturday regardless of the heavy rains as catastrophe companies searched by way of the particles for missing individuals.
The hilly space of (*30*) is vulnerable to landslides that left dozens of individuals lifeless in separate incidents in 2010 and 2012. A shopping mall was washed away in 2020 by raging floods.
Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen mentioned the federal government is working to establish another settlement space for these affected.