MINISTRY OF DISASTER AND PREPAREDNESS DONATES RELIEF ITEMS TO BUNDIBUGYO LANDSLIDE VICTIMS

By Sylvia Kugonza

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In Bundibugyo

The ministry of disaster and preparedness has donated relief items to Bundibugyo mudslide victims including Food, sauce pans, and clothes among others.

The mudslides occurred in different parts of the district on Saturday morning following heavy rains. At least 30 houses were reduced to rubble and property buried in the mud. Several hectares of crops were also washed away.

 The victims were residents of Busaru, Harugale, Nalulu, Ntotoro, Kirimi and Humya Sub Counties. 

According to the Rwenzori West Regional police commander SP Kayondo Lukanga, the victims have been given relief items to help them survive since all their properties were destroyed in the landslides.

However, Kayondo said that some of the victims have been relocated to Semuki high School and Bubukwanag refugee camp.

Police have also sent excavators to clear the roads and places that were destroyed by heavy stones and soils.

The Fort Portal – Bundibugyo road which had been cut off by the floods  reopened on Sunday after engineers from Uganda National Roads Authority-UNRA Fort Portal Station unblocked the culverts that had been filled with stones from the slopes.

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