At least 106 people have been killed in a landslide in eastern Uganda following more than a week of heavy rain in the area.

Minister of State for Disasters Mussa Ecweru has told that 300 people are still missing. The landslide engulfed three villages in the Bududa region near Mount Elgon late on Monday, following more than a week of heavy rain in the area.

Police and armed forces are taking part in efforts to find survivors. Officials say the mudslides have destroyed homes, markets, schools, and a health clinic. Unusually heavy rains also battered eastern Uganda in 2007 forcing 2,000 people to evacuate their homes. Nearly 50,000 people have been affected in what humanitarian officials describe as the worst rains in 35 years.

Israeli Attack on Gaza 2 killed, 4 injured, At least two Palestinians have been killed and four others wounded in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip.
Gaza hospital sources announced the reception of two bodies late on Monday, along with four other victims who had received medium to critical injuries, after an Israeli tank shelled the eastern Gaza city neighborhood of Shejaeya.
The shelling caused serious damage in the densely populated area, reports say, but there are no more details on the incident. The latest attack comes two days after the Israeli military launched a series of air raids on Gaza, wounding seven people, including children.