NAIROBI (Reuters) – Landslides in Burundi have killed at least 26 people and injured seven, while 10 more people remain missing, the Security Ministry said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All the victims were living on a hillside which gave way after heavy rains on Wednesday, a local government official in the northwestern province of Cibitoke told Reuters by phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey are still digging up dead bodies,\u201d the official, who declined to be identified, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ministry said homes and fields had also been damaged by the landslides. Search and rescue operations were going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
East Africa is experiencing unseasonably heavy rains because the Indian Ocean is warmer than usual, partly as result of a cyclical weather phenomenon and partly because oceans are warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Floods, landslides, and a cyclone have killed more than 1,200 people across East and Southern Africa this year, according to a Save the Children count based on U.N. and government figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flooding has also displaced nearly half a million people in Southern Sudan, 200,000 in Ethiopia and at least 370,000 in Somalia this year, the United Nations said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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