Sudanese villagers dig with hands to reach landslide victims, group says

Salvation Movement from Water/Army people are stopped around a large muddy area that seems to be in a tomb area — This image is thought to show about 40 graves

The peasants in a remote region of the Western Darfur region of Sudan are trying to reach the buried victims by hand after a destructive landslide on Sunday, Aid Group Save The Chiles.

Francesco Lanino, Francesco Lanino, who saved the Deputy Director of Children Sudan for programs and operations, said, “People are digging by hand to save the bodies of their relatives,” Francesco Lanino said.

It is not clear how many people are dead. The figures extend from an armed group responsible for the region to 1,000, to a figure that says that only two bodies have been rescued from the National Health Ministry.

Save The Children said that at least 373 bodies were rescued, according to the head of civil authority.

“1,000 lives, including 200 children, may have been lost.” He said.

Save The Children staff described the scenes of “destruction and demolition” after the landslide caused by heavy rains. Mr. Lanino said that the teams on the ground believe that the landslide is “one of the most tragic and large -scale disasters in the region.”

In the Tarseen region, which consists of five villages, he added that there was a known survivor in the worst village.

Due to the distance of the region, it was difficult to confirm the influence of the landslide independently.

However, through the analysis of satellite images, BBC Verify was able to determine nine buildings washed in the disaster and the structure.

Two graphics satellite images. One shows three settlements that seem to have been filled on March 5, 2025. The following graphics dated September 3, 2025 show two arrows that describe the landslide path and show the areas where these settlements have sparse population.

Save The Children received more than six hours of help to workers to pass about 14 miles (22 km) rocky, muddy land to the region affected by their offices.

Aid workers He traveled to the donkey To reach the Tarseen region to surrender the first human material group to survivors.

According to another charity group World Vision, Sudan said that the ongoing civil war makes the rescue efforts more difficult.

Apart from the landslide, Sudan is currently facing a humanitarian crisis due to the struggle between the Paramiliter Fast Support Forces (RSF) group and the army.

The predictions of the death wage from the Civil War are changing significantly, but last year, a US official estimated that 150,000 people have been killed since hostility began in 2023.

Twelve million people fled their homes.