Kenya Red Cross are responding to a landslide that left several people unaccounted for in a region in the central part of the country where there has been heavy rain.

The landslide occurred in Kimende Escarpment, the Red Cross, a humanitarian agency said in a post on social media platform X late on Tuesday. So far there were no deaths confirmed, it said.

“The area has been cordoned off and declared a danger zone,” it said.

Heavy rains and floods in the East African nation since late March have killed about 300 people and displaced 285,600, latest government statistics show.

A Tell / Reuters report  In the worst single incident, at least 61 people were killed in late April following a mudslide and flash floods in the town of Mai Mahiu, about 100 kilometres west of the capital Nairobi and barely 50 kilometres from the scene of the landslides in Kimende Escarpment.

• A Tell / Reuters report