Landslides swamped three villages in Uganda, killing at least 86 people and leaving hundreds missing, officials said Wednesday. Uganda's minister of state for disaster preparedness said that 50 students who had taken refuge in a hospital were among the dead or missing, according to a report of the Associated Press. Kevin Nabutwa, a Uganda Red Cross official, said 86 bodies had been recovered as of early Wednesday. Police and army forces were working to recover more bodies in the remote villages, which officials said were a three-hour walk from a main highway. «The government is doing all it can to rescue those still alive,» said Musa Ecweru, the disaster preparedness minister. «President (Yoweri) Museveni has instructed the army to join the organizations and volunteers who carrying out rescue work.» Heavy rains began Monday evening, triggering landslides in the Bududa region, 170 miles (275 kilometers) east of Kampala.
