Garbage dump landslide kills 35 in Ethiopian capital

A landslide at a huge garbage dump on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa killed 35 people who were searching for food and other goods there, an official said on Monday.

Hundreds of people rely on the 50-year-old Reppi dump, the city’s only landfill site, to survive.

They sift through the garbage for food, as well as items they can sell like recyclable metal.

Local authority spokeswoman Dagmawit Moges said: “We have been scouring the site in search of victims ever since an accidental landslide occurred at 8 p.m. on Saturday.

“The corpses of 35 victims have been recovered so far, while two others were pulled out alive.”

She said that 28 people were injured, two seriously.

(Reuters/NAN)

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