Humanitarian workers use donkeys to reach the village of Tarasin in Darfur

The humanitarian workers of donkeys delivered the first humanitarian supplies to the survivors of a landslide that would have killed hundreds of people in a distant mountain village in the Western Darfur region of Sudan.

The heavy rains and the sudden floods that struck the village of Tarasin triggering the disaster on Sunday continued, which means that donkeys are the only way to reach affected families.

“The families of Tarsin lost everything. It took our team more than a full day on a rocky, muddy and hilly route to reach this devastated community,” said Francesco Lanino, of the help agency to save children.

We don’t know how many people are dead.

The armed group in charge of the region has put the number at 1,000, but the Ministry of Health indicates that only two organizations have been recovered.

On Thursday, local civilian leaders said they had recovered and buried the bodies of hundreds of people.

“We have recovered 370 bodies and buried them. Others are still trapped under the rocks and some have been swept away by flood waters,” said Ibrahim Suleiman, one of the local leaders in the locality of Daramo, in a video seen by the AFP news agency.

The images shared by the Sudan / Army Liberation Movement (SLM / A), which controls the area has shown that residents and rescuers have gathered on a makeshift burial site, praying for the victims deposited, according to AFP.

Mujib al-Rahman al-Zubair, another local chief, said in a video shared with the Associated Press Thursday that the rescuers had found 375 bodies, while more remain trapped underground.

The SLM / A has remained neutral in the civil war which has ravaged Sudan for more than two years and many people escaped in the Marra mountains region where the landslide occurred to escape the fighting.

Antoine Gérard, the UN deputy humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, previously gave the figure of 370 deaths, but said that it was difficult to assess the extent of the disaster or the exact number of death because the area was so difficult to reach.

The United Nations said that an inter -listings assessment “will seek to provide verified figures in the coming days”.

On Thursday, an emergency team of 11 staff driving donkeys delivered medical supplies, food, water and tarpaulins to the communities affected on a trip that has taken more than six hours, children said in a statement.

The team includes medical staff, child protection experts and a mental health team, said the agency, adding that up to 1,000 people had been affected.

Mobile health clinics and emergency medical teams have also been deployed to provide immediate field care, with United Nations agencies and partners to send more supplies to meet additional needs.

“The Tarsin is one of the most isolated villages of one of the most remote parts in Sudan. The heavy rains and the sudden floods have made the response extremely difficult,” said Lanino, deputy director of programs and operations to save children in Sudan.

In a press release, SLM / A said that the “humanitarian catastrophic” situation in Tarasin required urgent international intervention.

The current conflict in Sudan has also seriously hampered rescue efforts, according to another aid organization, World Vision.

“With hundreds of lost lives and broken communities, we run against time and immense challenges to reach the most vulnerable,” Simon Mane, national director of world vision in Sudan, said the situation as a “tragedy of an unimaginable scale”.

According to the International Migration Organization (OIM), around 150 people were moved from Tarsin and neighboring villages, families have devoted themselves to neighboring communities.

The landslide aggravates an in -depth humanitarian crisis in Sudan, a nation already in the grip of a crisis where 30 million people need help.

Strong rains and floods have affected at least 21 zones across Sudan in recent weeks, with fears of flambés of diseases, and experts predicting an unusually humid season continuing in September.