At least 1000 people are dead after the ground collapse in Darfur, Sudan gives the village star-news.press/wp
A rebel group that controls the area late Monday said that the landslides eliminated a village in the western Darfur region of Sudan, killing an estimated 1,000 people in one of the most bloody natural disasters in the history of the modern African country.
The Sudan Liberation Movement said in a statement that the tragedy took place on Sunday in the village of Tarasin in the Mount Maria Mountains in central Darfur, days after heavy rains.
“Initial information indicates the death of all the residents of the village, which is estimated at more than 1,000 people. Only one person survived,” the statement said.
The group said the village “was completely on the ground,” and it resumes the United Nations and international relief groups to help restore bodies.
Abdel Wahid Al -Nour, the group leader, made an appeal on Tuesday for international assistance. He said: “The scale and size of the catastrophe are massive and unite the description.”
The ruling sovereign council in Khartoum was saddened by the “death of hundreds of innocent population” in the collapse of the Mount Mountains. In a statement, he said, “All possible capabilities” were filled to support the region.
The footage of the news port in the Maris Mountains showed a flat area among the mountain ranges with a group of people looking for the area.
Luca incomeParticipants in the United NationsDecree In Sudan, he said he was “very sad” by the reported landslide, adding that local sources indicated that “between 300 and 1,000 people had lost their lives.” He said that the United Nations and its partners were worshiping to support the affected societies at the scene.
“The village and its people disappeared”
Al-Amin Abdullah Abbas, a farmer of ammunition-said a group of villages that include Tararassin-that the region witnessed weeks of heavy rains, with Tarasin among the worst. He said that the leaders of the tribes and society in the neighboring areas have fill out efforts to restore and bury the victims.
“The village and its people disappeared,” he said. “It is an unprecedented tragedy.”
Mohamed Abdel -Rahman Al -Nir, a spokesman for the Sudan Liberation Movement, told Associated Press that the village where the landslide occurred is far and can be reached only on foot or donkeys.
The village of Tarasin is located in the Central Maria Mountains, a volcanic area with a height of more than 3000 meters at a top. The World Heritage site, and the mountain range is famous for its low temperature and rainfall higher than the surrounding areas, according to UNICEF. It is located more than 900 km west of the capital, Khartoum.
On Sunday, the ground collapse was one of the most bloody natural disasters in the history of modern Sudan. Hundreds of people die every year in the seasonal rains that last from July to October. The heavy rains last year caused the collapse of the dam in the eastern Red Sea province, killing at least 30 people, according to the United Nations.
Relief groups imposed by violence
The tragedy came as a destroyed civil war that invaded Sudan after tensions between the military forces and the semi -military support forces (RSF) exploded in an open fighting in April 2023 in the capital, Khurroum, and elsewhere in the country.
Most of the Darfur region, afflicted by the conflict, has become unconnected to the United Nations and aid groups, given the restrictions of the unemployed and fighting between the Sudan army and RSF.
Doctors of the Relief Group has warned that many societies in Darfur, including the Mary Mountains, were cut more than two years after war and isolation, describing these areas as a “black hole” in the humanitarian response of Sudan.
He said in a report in July that people in these societies “are deprived of sufficient assistance and vibrated by relief representatives despite the terrible, permanent conditions.”
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The Sudan Liberation Movement, which is concentrated in the Maria Mountains, is one of the multiple active rebel groups in the Darfur and Kordovan regions. He did not take aspects of the war.
The Marge Mountains are a rugged volcanic chain of 160 km southwest of Al -Fashr, and it is a center for fighting between the army and RSF. The region has turned into a center for displaced families who run away from the fighting in and around El Fasher.
The conflict in Sudan killed more than 40,000 people, forced more than 14 million people to flee their homes and let some families eat grass in a desperate attempt to survive when famine swept parts of the country.
It has been characterized by atrocities, including killing and rape of ethnic motives, according to the United Nations and rights groups. The International Criminal Court said it was investigating alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The conflict has created the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, with more than 30 million country in the country, who number 50 million people, needs assistance. Among them, more than 630,000 live in famine -fixed areas in the Darfur and Kordovan regions, according to international hunger experts.
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2025-09-02 09:03:00
