RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman offered condolences early Wednesday after a landslide in Sudan killed over a thousand people.
Sudanese authorities, UN and aid groups rushed to the village of Tarasin in the remote Jebel Marra range, in darfur, to support aid efforts.
The village was flattened on Sunday after heavy rain, the rebel group that controls the area said.
The King and crown prince extended their deepest sympathies to the President of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, the families of the deceased, and wished a speedy recovery to those injured in the incident.
The Sudan Liberation Movement/Army, which has long governed an autonomous portion of Jebel Marra, appealed to the United Nations and international aid agencies to help collect the bodies of victims, including men, women and children.
