Mass burials being held for Sierra Leone mudslide victims

Mass burials being held for Sierra Leone mudslide victims

Mass burials are being held on the outskirts of the Sierra Leone capital Freetown for the 400 people known to have died in a mudslide and flooding.

President Ernest Bai Koroma is expected to join Christian and Muslim religious leaders for a ceremony at the site, in the nearby city of Waterloo, later.

The search continues for an estimated 600 people still missing since Monday.

Some 3,000 people are homeless in what is being described as a humanitarian emergency.

• A disaster waiting to happen?
• Gruesome clear-up to prevent health emergency.

Mortuaries have been overwhelmed by the number of bodies they have received - more than 100 of them are children.
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