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Sierra Leone Plea for Mudslide Victims

15/08/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The Newsroom, Sierra Leone Plea for Mudslide Victims

'Urgent support' needed after mud buries Freetown villages

'Urgent support' needed after mud buries Freetown villages.

Efforts to recover more people from the muddy rubble that swept through the Regent area near Freetown are continuing. Also, Grace Mugabe skips court, and Saudi Arabia's missing princes.


(Picture: Search and rescue teams continue working at a mudslide site near Freetown.  Credit: AFP/Getty Images.)

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