Mayor Diriba Kuma told EBC the search-and-rescue effort soon would be completed and an investigation into the cause of the accident would begin
ADDIS ABABA–The death toll from a collapse at a landfill outside Ethiopia’s capital has risen sharply to 113, an Addis Ababa city official said Wednesday, as the country began three days of mourning for victims who were mostly women and children.
Dagmawit Moges confirmed the new toll Wednesday evening. Meanwhile, Addis Ababa Mayor Diriba Kuma told state broadcaster EBC the search-and-rescue effort soon would be completed and an investigation into the cause of the accident would begin.
Hopes were waning for survivors, though an official with the city’s emergency department, Nigatu Mamo, said one person had been pulled out alive on Monday, two days after the disaster.
Saturday’s collapse of a mountain of garbage buried makeshift mud-and-stick homes inside the Koshe landfill on the outskirts of the capital. Excavators and rescuers have been pulling bodies from the black mud since then.
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See also:
- Death Toll Soars to 72 in Addis Ababa’s Garbage Landslide
- Ethiopia’s Rubbish Landslide Kills 46 in Addis Ababa (Update)
- VIDEO: Dozens Feared Dead after Landslide at Ethiopian Rubbish Dump
- Ethiopia Declares 3 Days of National Mourning for Victims of Garbage Dump Landslide