Heavy rains lashing East Africa have caused of dozens of deaths, with 29 buried by landslides in Kenya, and 10 people drowned in a river in Tanzania, officials said Saturday.

East Africa storms kill 39 in Kenya and Tanzania

At least 29 people were killed in Kenya when their homes were swept away in landslides during ferocious overnight rainstorms, the government said Saturday. Their homes were hit in the early hours of Saturday amid torrential rains in the Pokot region, 350 kilometres (220 miles) northwest of the capital Nairobi.

Death toll in Kenya landslides soars to 29

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East Africa storms kill 39 in Kenya and Tanzania

Death toll in Kenya landslides soars to 29