Authorities inwards Republic of Guinea said Tuesday that they had constitute at to the lowest degree xix bodies believed to convey washed upwards from neighbouring Sierra Leone next catastrophic flooding as well as mudslides there.
Some 500 people died as well as to a greater extent than than 800 were reported missing after the disaster that struck Sierra Leone's working capital missive of the alphabet Freetown on August 13-14, when heavy rains swept away everything inwards their path.
Two weeks later, officials inwards Republic of Guinea said bodies had washed upwards every bit far away every bit the working capital missive of the alphabet Conakry, about 250 kilometres (155 miles) from Freetown, also every bit farther downward the coast at the ports of Koba as well as Kakossa as well as off the isle of Kabak.
"Since the catastrophe inwards Freetown nosotros convey recovered a full of xix bodies off our coasts, exclusively ane of which bore ID," maritime main Seinkou Keita told reporters inwards Conakry.
Authorities believe they must convey been carried past times the currents from Sierra Leone due to the grim nation of the bodies. One was missing its limbs, every bit were the bodies of many of victims swept away past times the torrent inwards Freetown.
Sierra Leone, ane of the poorest countries inwards the world, is struggling to recover from the disaster that striking its working capital missive of the alphabet simply 3 years after its end catastrophe, Ebola.
Authorities state heavy rains on August xiii saturated the hilly Blue Planet inwards about neighbourhoods of the densely-populated metropolis of 1.2 million, causing landslides that carried away hundreds of ramshackle homes.
AFP