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Heavy Rains, Landslides Kill 18 in Rwanda

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Eighteen people died overnight on Monday when heavy rains ripped through several parts of Rwanda, causing landslides, the government said. The East African nation, dubbed a country of a thousand hills, has recently been affected by landslides as a result of heavy downpours flattening houses on mountain slopes. “Eighteen people passed on due to disasters caused by heavy rains in the night of 23rd April,” Rwanda’s ministry in charge of disaster management said on Twitter. Seven people...

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