At least 50 people have been killed in landslides in southern Ethiopia.

Two incidents are thought to have occurred on Sunday evening and Monday morning, after heavy rains in a remote mountainous area of the Gofa zone.

The local authority said the search for survivors was continuing vigorously but that the "death toll could yet increase".

Footage showed hundreds of people gathered at the scene and others digging in the dirt in search of people trapped underneath.

The general administrator of the Gofa zone, MESKIR MITKU said women, children, and police officers were among the casualties.