A hillside in the Regent area collapsed early on Monday following heavy rains, leaving many houses covered in mud, BBC reported.
The military and the police were engaged in a rescue mission and the number of fatalities was likely to increase, officials said.
Images posted on Twitter showed people wading through streets, waist-deep in muddy water following the downpour in and around Sierra Leone's capital Freetown.
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