Men wait beside empty graves for the coffins of mudslide victims at Waterloo cemetery near Freetown, Sierra Leone. Pic/AFP

The death toll from the devastating floods in Sierra Leone has crossed 400, while an estimated 600 others remain missing, a senior Red Cross official said yesterday. "Today, we are counting more than 400 people dead," the president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, Elhadj As Sy, told reporters in Geneva.