{"id":124010,"date":"2025-11-02T07:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/11\/02\/kenya-intensifies-rescue-efforts-in-marakwet-east-landslide-as-death-toll-rises-to-21\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T07:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:10:55","slug":"kenya-intensifies-rescue-efforts-in-marakwet-east-landslide-as-death-toll-rises-to-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kenya-intensifies-rescue-efforts-in-marakwet-east-landslide-as-death-toll-rises-to-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya intensifies rescue efforts in Marakwet East landslide as death toll rises to 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya Nov 2 \u2013 The Government resumed search and rescue operation for survivors following a landslide in Marakwet East late on Friday night after heavy rainfall.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This comes as Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen confirmed that 21 people.<\/p>\n

He said on X that more than 30 people were still unaccounted for after being reported missing by their families while 25 people with serious injuries had been airlifted to receive further medical attention.<\/p>\n

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The Kenyan Red Cross, which is helping to coordinate rescue efforts, said that the most affected areas are still not accessible by road due to mudslides and flash flooding.<\/p>\n

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The government has urged people living near seasonal rivers as well as areas that experienced landslides on Friday to move to safer ground.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, flash flooding and landslides in Uganda, near the border with Kenya, have killed a number of people since last Wednesday.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the Uganda Red Cross said another mudslide had occurred in Kapsomo village in the east of the country, destroying a house and killing four people inside.<\/p>\n

The Red Cross said floods had severely affected most villages near riverbanks in the Bulambuli District.<\/p>\n

It said continuous heavy rainfall had caused the River Astiri and the River Sipi \u201cto overflow, resulting in widespread destruction of homes, crop fields, and community infrastructure\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya Nov 2 \u2013 The Government resumed search and rescue operation for survivors following a landslide in Marakwet East late on Friday night after heavy rainfall. This comes as Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen confirmed that 21 people. He said on X that more than 30 people were still unaccounted for after being reported […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}