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Rescue teams have so far retrieved the bodies of 157 people killed in two landslides in southern Ethiopia, a local official has told the BBC.
The landslides occurred yesterday morning, after heavy rains in a remote mountainous area of the Gofa zone.
The local authority said the search for survivors was “continuing vigorously but that the death toll could yet increase.
Footage showed hundreds of people gathered at the scene and others digging in the dirt in search of people trapped underneath. END.