Guinée: plusieurs morts dans l'éboulement d'une décharge à Conakry
Several people died Sunday in a landslide at a landfill in the suburbs of the capital, Conakry, after heavy rain, the head of the district where the accident occurred and witnesses told AFP.
No official report has been given on this incident. It occurred on Sunday around 3:00 AM (GMT and local time) when a large quantity of garbage collapsed onto homes near the landfill in the Dar es Salaam district, after heavy rain, witnesses told AFP.
The Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, Ms. Djenabou Touré, visited the site Sunday morning. She stated that an official assessment would be made only after the search operations were completed.
Rescue services were mobilized to search for possible victims under the debris, an AFP journalist observed. Law enforcement was also deployed in the disaster area, according to the same source.
The district chief of Dar es salam, Lanciné Sylla, told AFP of a heavy toll.
"We extracted 18 bodies from the rubble which were evacuated to the morgue" of a hospital in Conakry, said the local official.
The landslide caused several deaths, with bodies recovered from the debris, several witnesses told AFP.
One of Guinea's main opposition figures, Cellou Dalein Diallo, in exile abroad, described it as "a tragedy that plunges us into consternation," reporting "numerous victims," on Facebook.
In recent days, the government had announced eviction operations and measures to secure the areas around the landfill due to the risk of landslides.
Guinea is led by General Mamadi Doumbouya, who came to power through a coup in 2021 before being elected president in December 2025.
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