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Newshour: Sierra Leone Mudslides: Hundreds Still Missing

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Sierra Leone Mudslides: Hundreds Still Missing

16/08/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Newshour, Sierra Leone Mudslides: Hundreds Still Missing

Six hundred people are still missing after mudslides hit Sierra Leonean capital

Pathologists tells BBC mass burials of those killed in a mudslide in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, have already began.


Also on the programme: Lebanon scraps a controversial rape law; and fans pay tribute to rock and roll king, Elvis Presley.


(Picture: A woman mourns for her son at the entrance of Connaught Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Copyright: Reuters)

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