{"id":371530,"date":"2025-08-25T05:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371530\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:14:18","slug":"landslide-buries-homes-outside-guineas-capital-killing-11-and-injuring-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371530\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslide buries homes outside Guinea\u2019s capital, killing 11 and injuring 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At least 11 people have been killed and 10 others injured after a landslide triggered by heavy rains buried homes in Maneah, a rural commune about 50 kilometers from Guinea\u2019s capital, Conakry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Authorities warn the death toll may rise as rescue efforts continue. Entire families were trapped when the hillside collapsed late Wednesday, burying homes that housed more than 20 families.<\/p>\n<p>Guinea\u2019s legislative leader, <strong>Dansa Kourouma<\/strong>, joined residents and emergency crews digging through debris to find survivors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>:<\/strong>&#8220;I am with my people and we must combine our small efforts with the collective effort, our small intelligence with the collective intelligence to succeed, to find people in life, and I pray and I offer my prayer. Before coming here, I prayed that we would save as many lives as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Local volunteers rushed in with heavy machinery and hand tools to assist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mamadou Bangoura, volunteer first responder:<\/strong> &#8220;We moved the tank carrier, the machines to come and dig up those who are there because there was a landslide. All the houses were home to about twenty families, all the houses had floors. So when we came, there was no access. We bought shovels, we sent a lot of things to save the people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>National Agency for Emergency Management<\/strong> confirmed the collapse followed days of intense rainfall. The disaster underscores Guinea\u2019s vulnerability to extreme weather, coming just a year after record floods devastated West Africa, killing over <strong>1,000 people<\/strong> and displacing hundreds of thousands.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue operations remain underway as families search for missing loved ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 11 people have been killed and 10 others injured after a landslide triggered by heavy rains&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-371530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115087702003790153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}