KAMPALA, Uganda — Six more bodies, including those of two children, were recovered on Wednesday from the site of a massive garbage landslide in the Ugandan capital Kampala, bringing the death toll so far to 30, police said.
Several dozen people are also still missing, police said, after the collapse at the landfill in the northern district of Kiteezi on Saturday that buried people, homes and livestock in mountains of fetid waste.'Today, the team retrieved six dead bodies by 1730 hours . This makes a total of 30 bodies so far recovered,' the Uganda Police Force said on X, formerly Twitter.They included a three-year-old boy and a girl aged six, according to list posted by police of the latest victims found.
'He had previously raised concerns over risks of overflowing waste from the site, which was established in 1996 and takes in almost all garbage collected across Kampala.President Yoweri Museveni said on Sunday he had directed the army's special forces to help in the search and rescue operation and demanded to know who allowed people to live near such a 'potentially hazardous and dangerous heap.
Garbage Landslide Death Toll Rises To 30
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