Over 1,000 people have reportedly lost their lives in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in a Darfur village in Western Sudan, an armed group that controls the area ,the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) said.
The group said in a statement that the entire population of Tarsin village in the Marra Mountains was killed on Aug. 31, after heavy rains caused the landslide and only one person survived the disaster, the group said.