Guinea buries 36 victims of Conakry landfill collapse
Guinea held a mass funeral attended by thousands on Friday for the 36 people killed in a landfill collapse in a suburb of the capital last month following heavy rains.
Since the collapse, authorities have been demolishing houses in the zone considered at risk from the rubbish dump, citing the need to protect the population from another tragedy.
The three dozen bodies were taken to a mosque in Bambeto, a Conakry suburb, for Muslim funeral prayers.
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