Landslides due to torrential rain have killed 11 people, seriously injured eight and destroyed 102 homes in a remote rural area in southern Ethiopia, local press reported on Sunday.
The tragic incident occurred last Tuesday in two rural farm localities in the Detta Woreda district of Gamo Goffa Zone in the South Ethiopia Region, the Amharic language daily Addis Zemen reported.
The report quoted Detta Woreda Administrator Abraham Choso as saying seven of the dead were men and four were women.
Abraham said the homes and properties of 40 families in the two farm localities were totally destroyed by the landslide, while 102 other homes were partially destroyed.
Neighbouring farm villages came to the rescue of the landslide victims with food and makeshift shelters, he said, while the Regional Relief Agency was requested to provide immediate relief assistance. — Sapa-DPA