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The death toll from a landslide at a vast garbage dump in Uganda’s capital Kampala has risen to 13, police said on Sunday, as rescue personnel continued to dig for survivors.

After torrential rain in recent weeks a chunk of garbage from the city's only landfill site broke off late on Friday, crushing and burying homes on the edge of the site as residents slept.

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00:00Rescuers in Uganda are still searching for bodies after torrential rain caused a landfill site to collapse, burying numerous homes.
00:10Police say at least 13 people died in the disaster in Kampala, 14 people were rescued.
00:16The landfill site is the Ugandan capital's only rubbish dump and residents had long complained about its dangers.
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