Sudan recovers 100 bodies after landslide
AFP | Khartoum
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Rescue teams have recovered 100 bodies from under the mud after a landslide buried a remote mountain village in Sudan’s Darfur region, the rebel group that controls the area said yesterday.
Heavy rains triggered the landslip which almost wiped out the village of Tarasin in the Jebel Marra range, the Abdulwahid al-Nur faction of the Sudan Liberation Movement/ Army said.
“As of yesterday (Tuesday), 100 bodies have been retrieved from the site,” the group’s spokesman, Mohamed Abdelrahman al-Nair, said. The search and recovery operation is continuing despite the limited resources available, he told AFP via a messaging app.
Footage shared by the SLM on Wednesday showed volunteers using their bare hands to recover a body from under the mud and rubble.
Initial estimates by the rebel group suggested that nearly all of the village’s more than 1,000 inhabitants had been killed, with only one survivor.
UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the full scale of the disaster remains unclear “as the impacted area is extremely hard to reach”.
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