{{Burundi (AFP)}} – {Landslides in Burundi have killed at least 18 people with 10 more missing after torrential rains, a local governor said on Monday.}<\/p>\n
“It is a disaster… dozens of houses were destroyed, crops have been washed away,” said Jacques Minani, governor of the Bujumbura district, some 35km south of the capital. <\/p>\n
He said rescue teams are “searching the area to try to find the missing” after the landslides overnight Sunday. <\/p>\n
Twelve people died sheltering inside a church in the village of Rutunga, while others were killed inside their homes or simply swept away by rivers of mud, Minani added. <\/p>\n
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