The death toll from a mountain of rubbish that collapsed in the Ugandan capital of Kampala rose to 24 on Monday as rescuers with excavators continued searching for victims, according to the city authority.
At least five children are among those killed by the collapse at the Kiteezi landfill on Friday, police told reporters.
A chunk of garbage from Kampala's only landfill site broke off on Friday evening, crushing and burying homes on the edge of the site as residents slept.
Kampala city authority spokesman Daniel Nuweabine said the search for survivors was still ongoing.
"Working with other agencies, we are assessing the situation and helping all those in distress," he said.
The incident was described as a "national disaster" by Kampala Mayor Erias Lukwago, who warned at the weekend that "many, many more could be still buried in the heap as the rescue operation is ongoing".
More than 14 people have also been rescued so far, but rainfall has slowed the efforts of rescue teams to find more survivors.
Irene Nakasiita, a spokeswoman for the Uganda Red Cross, said there was no hope of rescuing more people alive.
Tents have been set up nearby for those displaced by the landslide, according to the Red Cross.
Cause named as 'structural failure in waste mass'
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni ordered an investigation into the disaster, asking in a series of posts on the social platform X why people were living in close proximity to an unstable heap of garbage.
"Who allowed people to live near such a potentially hazardous and dangerous heap?" Mr Museveni said, adding that effluent from the site was hazardous enough that people should not be living there.
The collapse is believed to have been triggered by heavy rainfall.
The precise details of what happened were unclear, but the city authority said there was a "structural failure in waste mass".
It was not clear how many people were not accounted for.
The Kiteezi landfill is a vast rubbish dump site in an impoverished hillside area that receives hundreds of garbage trucks daily.
It has served as Kampala's only dump for decades.
Residents have long complained of hazardous waste polluting the environment and posing a danger to residents.
The city authority has been aiming to decommission it since declaring it full years ago, but no progress has been made on the plan since 2016.
It is also a kind of no-man's land in the city of 3 million, attractive to women and children who scavenge plastic waste they aim to sell.
Others have built permanent homes nearby.
Several areas in Uganda and other parts of East Africa have been battered by heavy rains recently.
In February 2010, mudslides in the Mount Elgon region of eastern Uganda killed more than 350 people.
