Ernest Bai Koroma said whole groups had been wiped out and that the “obliteration was overpowering us”.

Near 400 individuals have been executed and a mass internment of casualties is wanted to free up space in funeral homes.

Endeavors to recuperate more individuals from the sloppy rubble that cleared through the Regent territory are proceeding.

The Red Cross said it was attempting to get gear in to remove bodies that were covered somewhere down in the mud.

A calamity holding up to happen?

Homes in Freetown were inundated after piece of Sugar Loaf mountain crumbled following substantial rain at an opportune time Monday.

President Koroma went by Regent – one of the most exceedingly terrible influenced regions – on Tuesday

Numerous casualties were still snoozing in their beds when fiasco struck.

It is dreaded the quantity of dead will rise further. Another 3,000 individuals are evaluated to have lost their homes.

“You will see countless crying with the individuals who have lost their relatives,” he said.

“It’s exceptionally hard to paint what the truth resembles, on the grounds that it’s more terrifying and extremely pitiful and unfortunate than anybody can have the capacity to portray.”

The look for survivors and bodies proceeded on Tuesday

In the most noticeably bad hit zone, the Regent locale, where many houses were submerged when the slope fallen at around 06:00 GMT, the individuals who survived talked about the relatives they had lost – or still would have liked to discover alive.

“My better half is dead. My kids are for the most part dead. At the beginning of today my youngsters and I talked before I exited for work. One of them even picked the socks I should put on,” a man called Malikie told.

Another lady, called Adama, said she was all the while scanning for her infant.

“We were inside. We heard the mudslide drawing closer. We were endeavoring to escape. I endeavored to snatch my child however the mud was too quick. She was secured, alive.

“I have not seen my better half, Alhaji. My infant was only seven weeks old.”

Global guide organization Save the Children said one individual from staff, alongside his kids, had vanished.

The Red Cross affirmed more than 300 individuals had passed on

His partner Ramatu Jalloh was driving past Regent while the mass of mud and flotsam and jetsam hit the territory.

“A woman kept running on to the street and began gesturing fiercely,” he said. “She shouted to another woman who had been riding a bicycle before us who, after a short discussion, began crying and looked extremely steamed,” she said.

“It was clear from their responses that something horrible had happened. Before long a short time later, another man kept running towards our auto. He was crying about the quantity of lives that had been lost.”

Red Cross representative Patrick Massaquoi revealed to AFP news office that 312 individuals were affirmed dead.

Flooding is not bizarre in Sierra Leone

Fatmata Sesay, who lives on the ridge territory of Juba, figured out how to survive the mudslide after she and her family were woken by the beating precipitation.

It was then they understood their house was submerged in water.

“I just figured out how to escape by moving to the top of the house when neighbors came in to safeguard me,” she told AFP.

“We have lost everything and we don’t have a place to rest.”

Prior, President Koroma asked individuals to avoid the influenced regions.

“This catastrophe of extraordinary size has by and by tested us to meet up, to remain by each other and to help each other,” he said.

“Give me a chance to guarantee you that my legislature is completely drawn in on this circumstance and in a joint effort with our improvement accomplices we have officially settled a crisis reaction focus at Regent to arrange our reaction and to give help to the survivors.”

Flooding is not bizarre in Sierra Leone, where risky lodging in temporary settlements can be cleared away by substantial downpours.

The downpours regularly hit territories in and around Freetown, a stuffed beach front city of more than one million individuals.

In 2015, Freetown persevered through fatal surges started by storm rains that executed 10 individuals and left thousands more destitute.