‘This Is Too Much for Us’: Sierra Leone Deluged by Mud and Grief<br />15, 2017<br />AUG. 15, 2017<br />DAKAR, Senegal — The bodies floated down the streets and piled up at the morgue, where the coroners struggled to find room for all of the dead.<br />An already devastating flood the day before produced even more anguish on Tuesday in Sierra Leone<br />as residents of Freetown, the capital, dug through the mud in search of missing family members.<br />AUG. 15, 2017<br />," the president said, advising people to remain calm and avoid areas still vulnerable to slides.<br />that Let me assure you that my government is fully engaged on this situation<br />The Red Cross said hundreds of people had been killed<br />and 600 were missing after torrential rains early Monday caused mudslides and transformed city streets into fast-moving rivers of muddy water, washing away everything in their path.<br />On Tuesday, Save the Children, an aid organization, said that one of its staff members and his young children were among the hundreds missing.<br />President Ernest Bai Koroma said in a televised address to the nation<br />that he was "very disturbed by this national tragedy," and promised to create an emergency response center in Regent, a neighborhood where dozens of people were thought to be trapped inside homes buried under soaked earth cleaved from the hillside.
