Ethiopia landslides kill more than 200 people as rescuers retrieve bodies | BBC News

Rescue teams have retrieved the bodies of more than 200 people killed in two landslides in southern Ethiopia, a local official has told the BBC.

The landslides occurred on Sunday evening and Monday morning, after heavy rains in a remote mountainous area of the Gofa zone.

The local authority said the search for survivors was "continuing vigorously" but that the "death toll could yet increase".