At least 32 dead as Kenya dam bursts after 豪雨s
People carry a 犠牲者's 団体／死体 from a 居住の area on May 10, 2018 after the 私的な Patel dam burst its bank at Solai, about 40 kilometres north of Nakuru, Kenya
At least 32 people died after a dam burst in central Kenya, 広範囲にわたる away their homes while many of them were asleep, police said Thursday.
After a 厳しい 干ばつ, weeks of 豪雨s in Kenya have led to flooding and mudslides that have left 164 dead.
The 私的な Patel dam, used for irrigation and fish farming, burst on Wednesday evening in Solai, 近づく the 不和 Valley city of Nakuru, 地域の police 長，指導者 Gideon Kibunjah told AFP.
"The search and 救助（する） 演習 is 現在進行中の and more 団体／死体s have been retrieved. The number we have as of now is 32 people dead and several are 行方不明の," Kibunjah said.
"It is a 災害 because most people were asleep when the 悲劇 occurred and their houses were swept away."
He said 36 people had been hospitalised.
A 上級の police officer at the scene, speaking on 条件 of anonymity, said 緊急 労働者s had spent the night 徹底的に捜すing through （海，煙などが）飲み込むd houses to retrieve the 団体／死体s of the 犠牲者s and had only covered about half of the 影響する／感情d area.
"We 設立する 11 of the 団体／死体s covered with mud at a coffee 農園 and these are people who may have been escaping but could not make it 予定 to the 軍隊 and 速度(を上げる） of the water from the flooded dam," he said.
地図／計画する of Kenya showing where a dam has burst 殺人，大当り at least 32 people
"Most of them are women and children who could not have been able to run 急速な／放蕩な, and the 年輩の."
The dam is surrounded by an informal 解決／入植地 住宅 casual labourers who work on nearby farms.
The Kenyan Red Cross 見積（る）s that up to 500 families were 影響する／感情d by the 災害, which took place some 150 kilometres (90 miles) northwest of Nairobi.
"We have 始める，決める up a centre 近づく the scene for families to 報告（する）／憶測 行方不明の members to enable us to 再会させる them," said Nakuru 知事 物陰／風下 Kinyanjui.
Several villages were 影響する／感情d around Nakuru, Kenya's fourth-largest city, 同様に as two schools.
- Deadly 雨の season -
Weeks of 豪雨s in Kenya have led to flooding and mudslides countrywide.
政府 統計（学） 解放（する）d Wednesday showed that more than 220,000 people have been 追い出すd by flooding as 強い雨s 攻撃する，衝突する the country after three 連続した failed 雨の seasons had left it in 干ばつ.
Since March, at least 21,000 acres (8,500 ヘクタールs) of 農地 have been 潜水するd in water with an 概算の 20,000 animals killed, the Red Cross said last week.
The floods have also destroyed road 網状組織s in some parts of the East African country and in some 事例／患者s the 軍の has stepped in to airlift 居住（者）s from 潜水するd houses.
The Red Cross 控訴，上告d last week for $5 million (four million euros) to help those 影響する／感情d.
The deluge has 影響する／感情d large parts of East Africa, destroying 刈るs and 殺人，大当り farm animals after a 厳しい 干ばつ which had sent food prices and インフレーション 急に上がるing and left millions in need of food ai d.
In Rwanda 215 people have died because of floods and 地滑りs since January, によれば Philippe Habinshuti of the 災害 管理／経営 省.
In Somalia flooding has 追い出すd tens of thousands, while 豪雨s have also 原因（となる）d havoc in Tanzania and Uganda.
