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Hospital and Red Cross sources have confirmed the death of six people in Freetown after a heavy downpour of rain lasting over 30 hours.

Four of them, including two children, were killed in the early hours of this morning after a huge boulder rolled at Congo Town in the west of Freetown and crushed them in their zinc house.

A child and a teenager were killed at New England after a mudslide.

The spokesman of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces, Major Samuel Moody, has told Politico that the deployment of Sierra Leonean peacekeepers to war-torn Somalia will start in late August at the earliest with a support group that will include the engineer regiment.

The regiment will identify locations for the main body of peacekeepers to deploy in as well as administration buildings and shelter.

Sorie Ndigi Dumbuya has taken over as the new Registrar of the University of Sierra Leone, replacing Edward Tamba Ngandi who has retired.

Dumbuya comes to the job at a time when the University says it’s charting a new beginning to improve the quality and relevance of its programs to the country’s development aspirations.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has engaged health workers in Makeni in the form of a sensitization meeting at its Makeni Office.

ACC Regional Manager, North, Patrick Sandi said in his welcome address that the engagement was an educational and preventive drive aimed at addressing corruption issues in a bid to ensure effective and transparent health care service delivery.

The ACC has engaged the Paramount Chief and chiefdom authorities of Dama Chiefdom, Kenema District as part of its public education campaign aimed at raising public awareness on the implications of corruption and to soliciting public support in the fight against corrupt practices.

 A midnight fishing expedition has resulted in a fatal accident at the high seas, leaving two people dead when a huge cargo vessel hit and left the small artisanal fishing boat in pieces.

Confirming the news, head of the joint maritime committee Commander Sallieu Kanu said the six survivors have been taken to Connaught hospital. Their identities and those of the dead were not known as at press time.