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A woman is comforted by relatives and friends while residents and volunteers leave for the night after digging in the mud in search for survivors and bodies at the scene of a landslide in Gofa on July 24, 2024. In tears, hugging each other, residents of Kencho Shacha Gozdi descend Wednesday evening, after a third day of desperate excavations, the hill where a landslide engulfed their loved ones in this rural and isolated area of southern Ethiopia .The landslide, the deadliest so far publicly reported in Ethiopia, the second most populous country on the African continent (120 million inhabitants), left at least 229 dead. (Photo by Michele Spatari/AFP Photo)
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