The number of people killed by the recent floods and landslides in northern Tanzania has increased to 47.
The number of injured people from the heavy downpour is at 85, according to a senior government official’s report.
The great flooding caused by the El Nino and Indian Ocean dipole weather phenomena has wiped out hundreds of people in Kenya and Somalia.
This led to hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from their homes since seasonal rains began in October.
At present, a search and rescue operation is underway in the Manyara region as authorities expect thra some bodies might be stuck in the mud.
The Manyara region commissioner Queen Sendiga had reported this information to newsmen late on Sunday.
President Samia Suluhu Hassan had in a video message he shared on the internet, said that about 100 houses in Katesh village, Hanang were swallowed up by a landslide.
Climate scientists have explained that climate change on Earth is causing more intense and a more recurrent extreme weather events.
