Fourteen people were killed in a landslide near a monastery in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, the state-run Amhara Media Corporation said late on Monday. The landslide occurred near the Tsadkane Mariam Monastery in Amhara’s North Shewa zone, the broadcaster said.
Search teams supported by excavation machinery were working to recover bodies, it said.
The Amhara Media Corporation report did not say what caused the landslide, but independent news reports said it was triggered by heavy rains.
Ethiopia is in its main rainy season, which runs from June to September.
