Landslide kills more than 1,000 in Sudan’s Darfur region, armed group says

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The Sudan Liberation Movement/Army appeals for UN assistance to retrieve bodies from a colony buried by a landslide aft dense rain.

A landslide has destroyed an full colony successful Sudan’s occidental Darfur region, sidesplitting an estimated 1,000 people, according to a rebel radical that controls the area.

News agencies said the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army issued a connection precocious connected Monday reporting the catastrophe successful the Marra Mountains country of Darfur.

The rebel radical said the landslide struck connected Sunday aft days of dense rainfall successful the area, and the colony was “completely levelled to the ground”, leaving lone 1 survivor.

“Initial accusation indicates the decease of each colony residents, estimated to beryllium much than 1 1000 individuals, with lone 1 survivor,” the radical said successful a statement.

The rebels besides appealed to the United Nations and planetary assistance agencies for assistance successful recovering the bodies of victims, which included children.

News of the catastrophe comes arsenic Sudan’s ongoing civilian warfare – present successful its 3rd twelvemonth – plunges the state further into 1 of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with famine already declared successful parts of Darfur.

People fleeing clashes betwixt the Sudanese service and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) successful North Darfur authorities had sought structure successful the Marra Mountains area, and nutrient and medicine were reported by the Reuters quality bureau to beryllium successful abbreviated supply.

Factions of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army, which controls the country wherever the landslide occurred, person pledged to combat alongside the Sudanese subject against the RSF.

Fighting has escalated successful Darfur, especially successful el-Fasher, since the service took power of the capital, Khartoum, from the RSF successful March.

El-Fasher has been nether siege for much than a twelvemonth by the RSF, which is seeking to seizure the strategical city, the past large colonisation centre held by the service successful the Darfur region.

The paramilitaries, who mislaid overmuch of cardinal Sudan, including Khartoum, earlier this year, are attempting to consolidate powerfulness successful the west and found a rival government.

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