Rescue teams were struggling to reach a remote mountain village in Sudan’s Darfur region on Tuesday after a devastating landslide buried almost the entire community killing more than 1,000 people.

Heavy rain triggered the disaster on Sunday, flattening the village of Tarasin in the Jebel Marra range, the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM) faction which controls the area said in a statement, adding that there was only one survivor.

“Initial information indicates the death of all village residents, estimated at more than 1,000 individuals, with only one survivor,” the faction led by Abdulwahid al-Nur said, calling the landslide “massive and devastating”.

The group appealed to the United Nations and other aid organisations for help recovering the dead still buried under mud and deb

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