{"id":411962,"date":"2017-08-16T10:32:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T10:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/08\/16\/at-least-600-still-missing-in-freetown\/"},"modified":"2017-08-16T10:32:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T10:32:42","slug":"at-least-600-still-missing-in-freetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/16\/at-least-600-still-missing-in-freetown\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 600 still missing in Freetown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">&#13;<br \/>\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.4.4--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">At least 600 people are still missing following a mudslide and flooding that devastated parts of Sierra Leone\u2019s capital, Freetown, a spokesman for the president has told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>President Ernest Bai Koroma earlier pleaded for \u201curgent support\u201d, saying entire communities had been wiped out.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 400 people are confirmed dead after a mudslide in the Regent area and floods elsewhere in Freetown on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross has warned it is a race against time to find survivors.<\/p>\n<p>A mass burial of victims is planned on Wednesday to free up space in mortuaries.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential spokesman Abdulai Baraytay told the BBC that bodies were still being pulled from the mud and rubble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire community is now in mourning. Loved ones are still missing, well over 600 people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The UN said its teams in Sierra Leone had mobilised and were supporting rescue efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContingency plans are being put in place to mitigate any potential outbreak of waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and diarrhoea, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.<\/p>\n<p>Homes in the hilltop community of Regent were engulfed after part of Sugar Loaf mountain collapsed following heavy rain early on Monday. Many victims were asleep in bed when disaster struck.<\/p>\n<p>President Koroma fought back tears as he toured Regent on Monday and said the devastation was \u201coverwhelming us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEntire communities have been wiped out. We need urgent support now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He urged people to stay away from the affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis tragedy of great magnitude has once again challenged us to come together, to stand by each other and to help one another,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Flooding is not unusual in Sierra Leone, where unsafe housing in makeshift settlements can be swept away by heavy rains.<\/p>\n<p>The rains often hit areas in and around Freetown, an overcrowded coastal city of more than one million people.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; At least 600 people are still missing following a mudslide and flooding that devastated parts of Sierra Leone\u2019s capital, Freetown, a spokesman for the president has told the BBC. 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