Nyamasheke District Vice Mayor for Social Affairs, Athanasie Mukankusi has told IGIHE that the incident happened on Saturday night around 11:00 p.m when landslide hit a house belonging to Gitsimbwe Village leader. She explained that a wall collapsed and fell on four children of whom three died on spot.
The survivor was taken to a nearby Karengera Health Center for medical attention. The deceased are respectively aged 8,9 and 12 while the survivor receiving medical attention is aged 15.
Similar incident also happened in Karengera Cell where landslide killed three people including two children and a woman.
Mukankusi has said that leaders have visited affected families, comforted them and requested residents to relocate from disaster-prone areas to avoid future incidents.
“We have also held a virtual meeting with sector executive secretaries and requested them to register houses in risky zones to be housed in churches,” she noted.
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