Landslide kills 24 in Kyrgyzstan villag
A landslide that swept over houses in a village in Central Asian Kyrgyzstan early Saturday has killed 24 people including nine children, the emergencies ministry told AFP
The landslide hit the village of Ayu in the Osh region of the mountainous Central Asian country at around 0720 am (0120 GMT), the emergencies ministry said in a statement.
“All 24 citizens of Kyrgzystan, nine of them children, died under the landslide in the south of the country,” said emergencies ministry spokeswoman Elmira Sheripova, updating an initial statement that reported four dead and at least 20 missing.
She said 24 people were dead under the mass of debris estimated at one million cubic meters.
The emergencies minister, Kubatbek Boronov, flew to the scene on the orders of President Almazbek Atambayev to take “all possible measures to alleviate the consequences of the landslide and give all necessary help to families of the dead,” said a statement on the president’s website.
The landslide is believed to have covered 11 houses, four of which were empty, Boronov was quoted as saying by local media.
He added that the rescue operation was hindered by the large volume of debris and the risk of the landslide moving further.
Ninety-five percent of Kyrgyzstan's territory is mountainous. A landslide in the country's south in 2004 killed 33 people.
(Source: AFP)
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