For fear of losing more lives, residents of Bujimwera village in Bumasifa sub-county, Sironko district, have asked the government to quickly relocate them to safer areas after heavy rains on Sunday killed two people and swept away 35 homesteads.
Two other residents, who have been missing since the catastrophe, are feared dead. Hussein Kato Matanda, the Sironko resident district commissioner (RDC), says more than 95 homesteads are at risk because more mudslide are expected as rains in the region intensify.
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