Sudan landslide kills at least 1,000 people, rebel group says | Sudan
According to a rebel group controlling the region, more than 1000 people were killed in a landslide in West Sudan on Sunday.
Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM), landslide, destroyed a village in the Marra Mountains of West Sudan and left only one survivor.
The group, led by Abdelwahid Nour, said that the landslide took place after heavy rains on August 31st.
“The first information shows the death of all residents who are estimated to be more than a thousand people with only one survivor,” he said.
The movement that controls the region in the Darfur region addressed the UN and international charities to help save the bodies of victims, including men, women and children.
In a statement, the village said, “Now it has been completely level on the ground.”
Sudan’s Bloody Civil War – now in its third year – Sudan dived into one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world and declared famine in some parts of Darfur.
As the army seized the control of the capital Hortum in March, the fight rose in Darfur, especially in al-Fasher.
The residents fleeing the angry war between the Sudan army and paramilitary rapid support forces were reported to seek shelter in the Marra Mountains region where food and medicine were insufficient.
SLM is mostly away from the fight, but it controls some parts of Sudan’s longest mountain row.
Minni Minnawi, the governor of Darfur’s army, called the landslide as iki Human tragedy that goes beyond the boundaries of the region ”.
“We urgently call on international humanitarian organizations to intervene and provide support and assistance at this critical moment, because tragedy is greater than that our people can carry alone,” he said.
Darfur – including the area in which the landslide has occurred – cannot be largely accessible to international charities due to continuous struggle and seriously limits the presentation of emergency humanitarian aid.
The fight was tens of thousands of and displaced only, including about four million from the capital.
Hundreds of people have been killed in recent months, and civilians in al-Fasher say that paramilitors are currently carrying out their most violent attacks on the North Darfur State Capital.
With Reuters and Agency France-Presse
