The landslide happened on Sunday after days of heavy rain and leveled the village of Tarsin in the remote Marra mountains…A rebel group said that as many as 1,000 people had been killed in the disaster, with just a single survivor in the village….
The top U.N. official in Sudan, Luca Renda, said that between 300 and 1,000 people may have died. Sudan’s government and aid workers scrambling to reach the affected area offered similar estimates.
“This is a nightmare,” Abdul Wahid al-Nur, the leader of the rebel group, said. He asked the United Nations and aid groups to send heavy machinery and rescue workers, saying, “We need to move thousands of tons of rock and earth.”
“Our biggest problem is that nobody is coming to help. This is beyond our capability,” he added.
The landslide was the latest calamity to befall a region already ravaged by Sudan’s two-year civil war and the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.
