Kenya: Mt Elgon Gets Landslide Alert

24 April 2012

The provincial administration in Mt Elgon has sounded the alarm over possible landslides as flash floods caused by heavy downpours continued pounding the region.

Area DC Kassim Farah said today while addressing the district disaster management team in his office pointing out that residents residing on high escarpments of Mt. Elgon to be evacuated to lower grounds.

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