Sierra Leone mourns 100 children among dead in massive flooding

Sierra Leone began a week of mourning Wednesday as it emerged that 105 children were among more than 300 people who perished in mudslides and torrential flooding, in one of the country's worst natural disasters.With 600 people still missing in Freetown, President Ernest Bai Koroma described the humanitarian challenge ahead as "overwhelming".Officials at Freetown's central morgue said Wednesday that 105 of the more than 300 officially dead were children.