Death toll rises to 30 in Uganda garbage dump landslide: police


KAMPALA, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The death toll of the garbage dump site landslide in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, climbed to 30 Wednesday, a police spokesperson said here.

Six more dead bodies aged between 3 and 33 years were retrieved from the garbage dump site located in Kawempe, one of the five divisions of Kampala, Patrick Onyango, spokesperson for the Kampala Metropolitan Police, told Xinhua over the telephone.

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