Mysterious illness kills 64 in Bakool region

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An unidentified disease has killed at least 64 people, mainly women and children, in villages in the southwestern Somali region of Bakool over the past three days, elders confirmed on Thursday.


The elders said there are no health facilities in the affected villages of Yoonkoy and Busti around the region?s provincial capital of Hudur, which is about 430 kilometers southwest of Mogadishu.

An elder in the region, Omar Isak Madey, told the media Thursday that the strange illness emerged at the beginning of the week and people began dying within 48 hours after becoming infected.

# This is a humanitarian disaster we have never seen before so we are calling for an emergency life saving medical assistance,? Madey during a telephone press conference.

# There is a terrible condition here, people are dying and we cannot do anything to save them,? the elder lamented.
Source: AHN