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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I remember Rush talking about that and contrasting it with the liberal protests.
Interrupted my favorite show, “OW MY BALLS”!
Wakanda?
Africa wins again.
I wonder what the IQ trend has been like in Mozambique
This tragic collapse was brought on by DJT and those damned Russians stealing the election way back in 2016 from the smartest woman in the universe, Hillary.
“TRUMP, do something about this senseless Carnage....”
.. See see...Hilda’s brother could have built a trash compactor company there for only 43 million if the foundation was only given 100 million
while she was SoS.....
Yes, he loved to bring that up.
The Tea Party protests usually left an area cleaner than they started. Some even had the clarity of fore thought to bring trash bags with them.
If your insurance company provides coverage for garbage collapse, but it doesn’t matter because you can’t afford it anyway, you might live in a sh_thole.
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