08-24-2017, 08:51 AM
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After the mudslides: Sierra Leone's body collectors | Humanitarian crises | Al Jazeera
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Freetown, Sierra Leone - A group of young men wearing protective suits and face masks pace the riverbanks looking for body parts.
One of them removes his mask and starts to chant, "if you smell something bad then tell us, if you smell something bad then tell us…."
Somebody upstream calls and the team rushes forwards, rolling out a body bag as they do so.
A man is standing on the riverbank pointing to a ball of branches, mud and plastic. He gestures that there is a bad smell.
The body collectors wade through the water and start searching under the rubble. After five minutes one of them pulls out a foot; mangled, white and rotting. They drop it into the body bag.
This group of volunteer body collectors, all of whom are young men from neighbouring communities, has been working for seven days to gather the remains of those killed by a deadly mudslide in Sierra Leone on Monday, August 14.
So far, 499 bodies have been unearthed. More than 600 people remain missing. Those who know the affected communities estimate that the real number of victims could be well over 1,000."
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