India, April 29 -- East Africa deluged as Tanzania, Burundi and Kenya receive massive amounts of precipitation

A dam burst near a village in the Rift Valley region of southern Kenya in the early hours of April 29, 2024. Some 45 people have been killed according to the police chief of the Nakuru County, where the incident took place.

Samuel Ndanyi told the Kenyan Nation news outlet that 45 bodies had been recovered since the dam burst at 4 am local time and the waters swept everything in their path. The bodies were mostly of women, children and the elderly who were not able to run fast and escape the floodwaters, according to Ndanyi.

The incident happened at the Kamuchiri village near the town of Mai Mahiu, some 58 kilometres from the K...