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		</div><p>Ethiopian officials declared three days of mourning on Friday as diggers continued their search for bodies of mudslide victims in a remote part of the East African country.</p>
<p>Heavy rain triggered deadly slides on Sunday and Monday in Ethiopia’s south, killing at least 257 people, according to the UN humanitarian office, known as OCHA.</p>
<p>It said in its latest update that the death toll could rise to as many as 500, citing local officials.</p>
<p>“More than 15,000 affected people need to be evacuated” from the area, OCHA said.</p>
<figure id="attachment_183919" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-183919" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/EF2FB173-C80E-49A3-92AB-7C3B2420B7E4.webp" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-183919" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-183919" class="wp-caption-text">A man searches for survivors in the Kencho Shacha Gozdi district, southern Ethiopia</figcaption></figure>
<p>The national assembly said a three-day period of national mourning would begin on Saturday.</p>
<p>Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said earlier in the week that he was “deeply saddened by this terrible loss”.</p>
<p>Many people were buried in the Gofa Zone of Kencho Shacha Gozdi district on Monday, as rescue workers searched the steep terrain for survivors from mudslides the previous day.</p>
<p>Photos from the scene show residents standing over the shrouded bodies of mudslide victims who are being pulled, one by one, from the muddy earth.</p>
<p>Diggers have been using hand shovels to pick through the mud.</p>
<p>Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general, said on the social platform X that UN agencies were dispatching food and other critical supplies to help affected people.</p>
<p>Landslides are common during Ethiopia’s rainy reason, which started in July and is expected to last until mid-September.</p>
<p>Deadly mudslides often occur in the wider East African region, from Uganda’s mountainous east to central Kenya’s highlands.</p>
<p>In April, at least 45 people were killed in Kenya’s Rift Valley region when flash floods and a landslide swept through houses and cut off a major road.</p>
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