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The Uganda Red Cross Society has expanded its rescue operations following yesterday’s landslides in Bulambuli district, to include other affected areas like Buluganya parish, in the villages of Masugu, Namakere, Kagulu and Namagugu.
The landslide, which was triggered by a heavy downpour also buried livestock and crops.
Mr. Mark Barasa, the Bulambuli district vice chairman says one body was recovered by locals shortly after the rains subsided.
According to the Red Cross spokesperson Irene Nakasiita, two people have been injured and admitted at Muyembe Health Centre IV.
She says rescue efforts and the search continued this morning for the seven missing members of a family whose house is said to have been covered completely by the mudslides.
Meanwhile, the Bulambuali district Chairperson, Milton Kamoti has renewed his call for government to hasten the process of relocating families that are living in mudslide-prone areas now that the district experiences deadly heavy rains. END