'It swept everything': Kenya villagers count toll of dam deluge

Credit: Terra Daily- Published 3 weeks ago
Mai Mahiu (AFP) April 29, 2024

At least 46 people including children died when a makeshift dam burst its banks in Kenya's Rift Valley in the early hours of Monday, a local official said, as torrential rains and floods battered the country. Scores of people have been killed over the March-May wet season in Kenya as heavier than...

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Published 3 weeks ago -  01:53
Kenyan villagers count cost after deadly dam deluge
People in the Kenyan village of Kamuchiri recount the experience of the deluge which hit their local area overnight after a dam nearby broke, killing dozens. Kamuchiri village lies close to the town of Mai Mahiu, just north of Kenya's capital Nairobi. "I’m 85 years old, and I’ve never seen anything like this," says Peter Murithi Mwangi, whose house was flooded. Meanwhile workers use construction vehicles to try to clear some of the vast swathes of mud carried along after the dam broke.

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