In the Darfur region in the west of Sudan, hundreds of people died as a result of the landslide gathering, the sovereign Council of Sudan said. The tragedy occurred in the area of the Jebel Marra Mountain Massive.
“with deep sorrow and sadness, we honor innocent citizens who became victims of landslide caused by heavy rains,” follows from the Council’s statement.
The head of the sovereign council and its members expressed their condolences to the families of the dead and the entire people of Sudan. “We pray to the Almighty to accept our martyrs with mercy and give an early recovery to the victims,” follows from the publication. The determination of the determination of the use of all available resources to assist the victims.
the head of the municipality of Darfur Minnie Arko Minavi described what happened as a “humanitarian catastrophe, the scale of which goes beyond the region.” “We have lost a large number of our people in this natural disaster. The situation exceeds the capabilities of our people,” he said.
Minavi called on international humanitarian organizations to urgent intervention to extract the bodies of the dead and assisting the survivors. >
, according to the civil administration related to the movement of Sudan for Liberation, he completely destroyed the village of Tirsin. Of the more than 1,000 inhabitants, only one person survived.
“with a deep sorrow and anxiety, we monitor the fate of the inhabitants of Tirsin. Intensive rains in the last week of August caused large and destructive landslides. According to preliminary data, the village was completely destroyed,” the administration noted. More than a hundred people die due to floods and spills of rivers, thousands of houses and agricultural land die, which exacerbates the humanitarian situation in the country.