At least 1,000 people were killed in a landslide that destroyed a village in the mountainous Jebel Marra area in the Darfur region of Sudan, leaving only one survivor, the armed group that controls the area said early on Tuesday (Sep 2).
The landslide struck Tarseen village on Aug 31 after a week of heavy rainfall, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) led by Abdelwahid Mohamed Nour said in a statement.
SLM/A, which has long controlled and governed an autonomous portion of Jebel Marra, appealed to the United Nations and international aid agencies to help recover the bodies of victims, including men, women and children.
“Tarseen, famed for its citrus production, has now been completely levelled to the ground,” the statement said.
The SLM/A has remained neutral in the battle between the main enemies in Sudan’s civil war, the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The two foes are fighting over control of al-Fashir, the nearby capital of North Darfur state, which is under siege from the RSF and has suffered famine.
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