Floods, landslides kill 24 in Ivory Coast’s main city • FRANCE 24 English
after the range the firefighters are hard at work behind a gutter usually blocked by waste is causing the flooding in this area in the highrisk neighborhoods the firefighters carry out an awareness remission before going home in the evening when You’ finished working you must unplug all devices when it rains don’t let children play in the water in Aban the usually dry water course where San’s son played was submerged in just a few minutes killing three children the first body was recovered there he was my son the older ones were able to escape but the younger ones 8 10 12 couldn’t they tried to rescue them but it worst happened the violent rain for has also weakened some buildings that have collapsed others were destroyed to prevent further collapses this architect blames the situation on arade construction and informal settlements the collapses we witness are unfortunately very often the case of people who do not have the skills necessary to carry them out there are no Architects there are no design officers directly involved in the collapses we’re witnessing in the Ivory Coast heavy rainfall is usual at this time of the year in Ivory Coast but climate change is making the phenomenon more and more extreme we are witnessing increasingly at typical rainy season to the extent that the volume of precipitation that is expect throughout a rainy season can be found in much closer periods the heavy RS are expected to last until August
Floods and landslides killed at least 24 people in 10 days in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s largest city, authorities said Monday after an unusually intense start to the rainy season.
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