Facing risk of disease, Sierra Leone buries mudslide dead

Facing the threat of disease, Sierra Leone on Wednesday began burying hundreds of victims of a mudslide that swept away homes on the edge of the capital, one of Africa's worst flood disasters in living memory.Hundreds of Freetown residents queued to identify relatives crushed by the mud on Monday in a valley on the outskirts of Freetown.Freetown chief coroner Seneh Dumbuya told Reuters the burial of 297 of the bodies was underway.