1500 people left displaced by floods and landslides in Uganda

Ms Catherine, a spokesperson for the Uganda Red Cross, a charity that is coordinating humanitarian assistance to the victims says, more people continue running away from their homes, as the rains continue. She also said the floods and landslides were escalating the danger of water-borne and other sanitation related diseases. She said rising cases of cholera had been confirmed. The latest landslides come barely two months after another devastating landslide struck Bududa and buried an entire trading centre of about 350 people. Three children, two of them from one family, were killed after torrential rains accompanied by hailstorms hit their homes in Mbale District. Their lifeless bodies were discovered two kilometers away from the scene of the landslide after they tried to run away when torrential rains tore through their house. Minister for Disaster Preparedness has discovered that there are huge cracks along the Elgon Mountain and advised people to relocate from these dangerous areas.

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