New Vision (Kampala)

Uganda: Bududa Mudslides - 300 People Still Missing

Kampala — A total of 95 bodies have been recovered following the deadly Bududa mudslides in Eastern Uganda.

However, 300 people are still unaccounted for.

Disaster state minister Musa Ecweru, who has been overseeing the resettlement and distribution of relief in Bududa said efforts to find missing persons, were still going on.

Ecweru said 3,000 people have been resettled in Bulucheke, a few kilometers away from the Bududa.


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