Overview

• Local authorities and aid workers say at least 373 bodies have been recovered, with UN and SLM/A estimates warning the death toll could approach 1,000 and many victims are children.
• Save the Children reached Tarasin after a 10-hour donkey trek from Golo and has deployed 11 staff, establishing an emergency health post and psychosocial support.
• The aid group reports 150 survivors, including 40 children, are receiving medical and protection support.
• Survivors describe three landslide waves over three days and continuing rain with cracking sounds from the mountains, raising fears of further collapses.
• Homes and roughly 5,000 livestock were buried, water sources are contaminated and cholera risk is rising as local volunteers and SLM/A lead rescues in the roadless, network-less area.