More than 100 people are missing and about 30 confirmed dead in eastern Uganda after a landslide buried villages.

A hospital used by Ugandan schoolchildren to shelter from the heavy rains turned into a death trap as a landslide engulfed the building, leaving more than 50 pupils missing.

Landslides have swamped three villages in Uganda, killing at least 86 people and leaving hundreds missing after rivers of mud swept through a church and hospital, officials said today.