On the night of 6 and 7 September 2022,[1] 15 people were killed when heavy rain caused multiple landslides in the Kasese District of Uganda.
[4] The Uganda Red Cross Society have confirmed that the majority of deaths were mothers and children.
[7] Several homes were destroyed and multiple people were buried alive,[8] with rescue efforts focusing on those still trapped underneath.
[9] After the tragedy, plans were underway that same afternoon to transfer the bodies to Kasika primary school for postmortems and burial arrangements.
[10] The event was one of a series of recent floods in Western Uganda[11] and one of many in Africa in 2022.