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Sudan recovers 100 bodies after Darfur landslide: rebel group

This handout image made available by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM), on September 1, 2025, shows people inspecting the debris after a landslide devastated the village of Tarasin in Sudan's Jebel Marra area. [AFP]

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 Wednesday.

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.

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