Posted on 02/19/2018 10:39:16 AM PST by sodpoodle
At least 17 people have been killed in Mozambique's capital, Maputo, after a huge mound of rubbish collapsed on their homes, officials say. Many more residents were injured when the pile of waste, some 15m (49ft) high, gave way in heavy rains at 03:00 local time (01:00 GMT) on Monday. Rescue workers are continuing to search for people still trapped. The city of Maputo has experienced heavy rainfall since Sunday, which has damaged homes and flooded roads.
Several properties were crushed in the incident in the Hulene district of Maputo, one of the poorest parts of the capital, while people were sleeping inside. A spokesman for the emergency services, Leonilde Pelembe, warned that more victims could be trapped under the waste. "The information we received from local authorities is that the number of people living in those houses exceeds the number of deaths recorded," Mr Pelembe said. The authorities said they had previously asked residents in the area to leave because their homes were constructed illegally, Reuters news agency reports.
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Trash is southern for garbage.
Dying under a mountain of garbage is one definition of sh_thole.
LOL, looks like we’re all on the same page.
Dreadful. RIP.
But DON’T call it a shithole....
"If your front yard is also your bathroom, you might live in a sh*thole."
"If your..." eh never mind. You get the point.
Mozambique is the only country that was never a British territory or colony (it was Portuguese), but in 1995, asked to join the Commonwealth anyway.
Hmmm, we need to notify Puerto Rico.
“Yes Brit for trash is ‘rubbish’.
Also a polite way of saying bull shit. A garbage can is a dust bin.
It was a client of The Soviet Union during The Cold War.
If this happened in the USA the left would be demanding we make trash illegal.
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You’re right but the left doesn’t mind the mounds of trash left by illegals along out border.
You want trash, just look at the DC Mall after “Earth Day”.
Yes, I realize this.
It is almost impossible for me to read the word without imagining Jeremy Clarkson saying it in his inimitable fashion.
Yep.
Hell, they accumulate that much garbage in weekend in any democrat big city.
I took my kids to Dan’s Bake Sale/Rally which Rush Limbaugh held in Fort Collins, Colo. in 1991 and the place was left very clean.
Legislators in Mozambique need to pass Rubbish Control legislation NOW!!!
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