This archive report was first published on 25 November 2019.
Published on November 25, 2019, the death toll from West Pokot landslides in Kenya has risen to 52 after six more bodies were recovered at Parua area.
At least 22 other people are missing after the tragedy that hit Parua, Nyarkulian and Muino, according to Governor John Lonyangapuo.
Prof Lonyangapuo said search and rescue mission was still underway, but efforts to find and pull more bodies out of mud have been hampered by lack of transport due to impassable or non-existent roads.
He estimated that 22,000 homesteads and between 80,000-120,000 people have been displaced or affected by the landslides.
The county has run out of medicines after the remaining stocks were sent to dispensaries and schools caring for the displaced.
Governor Lonyangapuo appealed to well-wishers to donate food items, clothes, blankets among others, saying that they have set up a store in Kapenguria township for aid.
