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Two children among eight dead in Uganda landfill collapse

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An excavator helps search for people trapped under debris after a landfill collapsed in Kampala on August 10, 2024.[AFP]

Eight people including two children were killed when mountains of garbage collapsed at a landfill in the Ugandan capital Kampala on Saturday, the city authority said.

Local media said homes, people and livestock animals were engulfed in the landslide at the vast garbage dump in Kiteezi, a district in the north of Kampala, after heavy rainfall.

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