When security officer Nicaise Bouadou, 43, heard the first drops of rain on his tin roof on the evening of 23 June in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial hub, he thought it was the typical start of the rainy season.
The cries of his neighbor’s children woke him up. Frightened by the violent torrents that had rushed down the hill and set off a mudslide, adults frantically reached out, trying to grab something to steady themselves, while children hurled themselves into their parents’ arms.
By morning, his shack made of boards propped up on bricks had collapsed. In the refuge of a neighbor’s house, Bouadou told IRIN about the terrible night when he “could not save a child’s life”.
Read more of the story here at the IRIN news service:
COTE D’IVOIRE: Nicaise Bouadou, “I could not grasp the child’s hand”
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