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Three dead, hundreds displaced as severe flooding hits Freetown

Publisher report1 reportUpdated 5 Aug 2026, 11:20 pmroutine · 20/100
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Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2026: A five-year-old girl, her mother and grandmother have died after a wall collapsed at Metchem on Monday during heavy rains that lasted for hours, local authorities have said. In nearby Juba, just 9.2km from central Freetown, over 300 homes were “completely flooded,”

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