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- Ugandans scour mud for relatives after landslide (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Mar 4, 2010 - Grieving villagers in eastern Uganda dug through the night and moved tonnes of mud in the hope of finding relatives buried by a huge landslide as rescue teams arrived at the scene Thursday. - Search goes on for Uganda landslide survivors (The Malaysian Insider)
Mar 4, 2010 - NAMETSI (Uganda), March 4 — Soldiers and villagers in eastern Uganda hacked at mounds of thick mud with picks and hoes yesterday in a desperate bid to find more survivors from a landslide that killed at least 80 people. Waves of mud and rocks swept down the steep mountainside late on Monday night after seven hours of rain and engulfed the village of Nametsi, burying houses, people and livestock ... - Mudslide Kills 80 in Uganda (The Epoch Times)
Mar 4, 2010 - A massive mudslide caused by heavy rains killed 80 people in the village of Nameitsi. - UN rescue teams begin work on Uganda landslide site (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Mar 4, 2010 - United Nations relief teams were Thursday to begin their rescue effort in a remote region of eastern Uganda, three days after a landslide left 80 dead and 300 missing. - Search goes on for Uganda landslide survivors (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Mar 3, 2010 - Soldiers and villagers in eastern Uganda hacked at mounds of thick mud with picks and hoes on Wednesday in a desperate bid to find more survivors from a landslide that killed at least 80 people. - Uganda landslide kills 86 (Sky News Australia)
Mar 3, 2010 - At least 86 people have died and hundreds are missing after a landslide swept away entire villages in eastern Uganda, the Red Cross says. - Ugandans use hand tools to combat mudslide; toll at 86 (USA Today)
Mar 3, 2010 - When Beatrice Nabuduwa's 12-year-old daughter failed to come home after school, the mother assumed her child had stayed over at an aunt's because of the heavy rainfall. Now the girl is among the hundreds of missing after mudslides engulfed the village. - Uganda mudslide: Villagers dig out after hundreds were buried alive (The Christian Science Monitor)
Mar 3, 2010 - Volunteers with pickaxes and hoes are trying to find the bodies of those buried by Monday's Uganda mudslide. Scores of bodies have been found, and hundreds more are thought to be buried under the mud. - Uganda mudslide: Villagers dig out after hundreds were buried alive (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
Mar 3, 2010 - When the Uganda mudslide hit her village early Monday evening, Eleanor Namasa was at home with her two sister-in-laws and her toddler, Catherine. - Frantic hunt for missing in Uganda mudslide (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Mar 3, 2010 - Rescuers clawed through mud in driving rain Wednesday in a desperate bid to find survivors from a huge landslide feared to have killed hundreds in villages in eastern Uganda.