Equatorial Guinea: Survivors of Guinea's Deadly Landfill Collapse Say Authorities Ignored Warnings

[RFI] Two days after a deadly landfill collapse in Guinea, rescuers are using giant excavators to search for victims. Anger is rising among residents, who say they had warned authorities that the rubbish dump was precarious.

At least 30 people have died after heavy rains caused a huge pile of waste to collapse. Authorities have promised to evacuate families still living near the site, which was already due to be closed.

In Guinea, a landslide at a garbage dump outside the capital Conakry has claimed the lives of at least 30 people. The government of the West African country says it has mobilised significant resources to try and find survivors that may still be trapped under massive piles of waste. Less than a week ago, that same gover

A landfill collapse in Conakry kills 30, injures six, and destroys homes after heavy rains in Guinea's capital.

A mound of rubbish at a major waste site buried several homes in the capital, the government says.

At least 30 people have been killed after a mound of rubbish at a major waste site collapsed onto nearby homes in Guinea's capital, Conakry, the government has said.

A local woman who lost her five children in the disaster told reporters, ‘I have lost all my children. All I can do is put my trust in God’

Six others were seriously injured in the incident in the Bbessia district's Dar-es-salam neighbourhood on the capital's outskirts.

Heavy seasonal rains caused a mound of garbage to collapse, burying dozens of people and nearby homes before the break of dawn.

A mountainous heap of refuse collapsed at Dar es Salam, the largest landfill in Guinea’s capital Conakry, early on Sunday killing at least 30 people, according to a provisional death toll from the country’s civil protection service. Heavy rains, which started at around 3am, washed over the refuse, triggering a landslid