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Uganda urges evacuation after landslide kills 20, leaves 100 missing

Residents walk past a house buried in mud following flooding and landslides in Masugu on November 28, 2024. [AFP]

Uganda has urged people living in disaster-prone mountainous areas to evacuate immediately after a landslide killed 20 people and left another 100 missing in the eastern district of Bulambuli.

The landslide struck five villages in Bulambuli district on Wednesday night.

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