At least 11 people have been killed and 10 others injured after a landslide triggered by heavy rains buried homes in Maneah, a rural commune about 50 kilometers from Guinea\u2019s capital, Conakry.<\/p>\n
Authorities warn the death toll may rise as rescue efforts continue. Entire families were trapped when the hillside collapsed late Wednesday, burying homes that housed more than 20 families.<\/p>\n
Guinea\u2019s legislative leader, Dansa Kourouma, joined residents and emergency crews digging through debris to find survivors.<\/p>\n
:”I am with my people and we must combine our small efforts with the collective effort, our small intelligence with the collective intelligence to succeed, to find people in life, and I pray and I offer my prayer. Before coming here, I prayed that we would save as many lives as possible.”<\/p>\n
Local volunteers rushed in with heavy machinery and hand tools to assist.<\/p>\n
Mamadou Bangoura, volunteer first responder: “We moved the tank carrier, the machines to come and dig up those who are there because there was a landslide. All the houses were home to about twenty families, all the houses had floors. So when we came, there was no access. We bought shovels, we sent a lot of things to save the people.”<\/p>\n
The National Agency for Emergency Management confirmed the collapse followed days of intense rainfall. The disaster underscores Guinea\u2019s vulnerability to extreme weather, coming just a year after record floods devastated West Africa, killing over 1,000 people and displacing hundreds of thousands.<\/p>\n
Rescue operations remain underway as families search for missing loved ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 11 people have been killed and 10 others injured after a landslide triggered by heavy rains…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-106366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}