Alex Yesho, a resident of Tuikat Sub County, says the dead include a mother and her two children. According to Yesho, they struggled to save the family in vain as they were covered in rabbles.
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one of the house that was hit by landslides, it claimed three lives
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Landslides have claimed the lives of three
people and injured several others in Kween district.
The landslides occurred in
Konba Village in Kere Parish in Tuikat Sub County after Sundet and Kere Rivers
burst their banks following heavy rains that pounded the area on Saturday.
Alex Yesho, a resident of Tuikat Sub County,
says the dead include a mother and her two children. According to Yesho, they struggled
to save the family in vain as they were covered in rabbles.
He however, said they have been able to
retrieve their bodies.
Yesho explained that they are currently experiencing
very bad weather, adding that people living in risky areas mainly in the upper
belt of Kween need to be evacuated.
“As I speak now, it is even threatening to
rain, government should have plans of evacuating people in high risk areas
because we are bound to lose more people due to landslides” he said.
Paul Sakit, the Tuikat Sub County LC III
Chairperson, said the landslides have caused havoc in the entire sub county,
saying they have erased people’s houses.
He said many people have now been left
homeless and their crops and animals covered in the rabble.
Sakit has called
for government intervention to help the affected residents.
Details to follow…
AYUBU KIRINYA
Freelancer