It’s feared that more than 200 people have been killed as houses have been submerged.

Desparate family members have been digging through the mud in Freetown in search of their loved ones.

The mortuary in the Sierra Leonean capital is overwhelmed.

Houses have be  submerged in mud after a night of heavy rain collapsed  a hillside above a heavily populated residential quarter.

Most of the victims were asleep when they were engulfed by what rescue workers say are roads turned into churning rivers of mud.

Sierra Leone’s Vice-President Victor Bockarie Foh says it’s  likely that hundreds are lying dead.

Foh says the disaster is so serious that he personally  feels broken.

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Addressing the Pan African Parliament in Midrand, Victor Bockarie Foh says beating the deadly virus shows the need for an African rapid reaction medical presence.

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Victor Bockarie Foh says Sierra Leone understands how terrifying the Ebola outbreak was in his country and neighboring Guinea and Liberia.

So it has made peace with fellow Africans shunning the victims or being slow to come to their assistance.

He says the Pan African Parliament can play a role in building continental unity to prevent a recurrence of this.

For says Sierra Leon has ratified legislation to give the PAP lawmaking powers.

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