CAIRO (AP): Search teams have recovered around 100 bodies from a remote village that is feared to have been wiped out by a devastating landslide over the weekend in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, a rebel group said on Wednesday.
The Sudan Liberation Movement-Army has said the death toll from the Aug. 31 landslide in Tarasin, in the Marrah Mountains, could be as high as 1,000.
Mohamed Abdel-Rahman Al-Nair, a spokesman for the group, said that about 100 bodies were recovered on Tuesday. He said search efforts were underway amid lack of resources and equipment.
Pope Leo XIV has called for a coordinated response to stop “this humanitarian catastrophe” in Sudan.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, said that the death toll and the full scale of the tragedy have yet to be confirmed due to the scene being “extremely hard to reach.”
