The United Nations said Tuesday it is working to respond to a devastating landslide in Sudan’s Darfur region that buried an entire mountain village, killing as many as 1,000 people.

Heavy rain triggered the disaster on Sunday, flattening the village of Tarasin in the remote 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.

“The United Nations and our humanitarian partners are mobilising to provide support to the affected population,” UN humanitarian coordinator in Sudan Luca Renda said in a statement.

Citing sources on the ground, Renda said the death toll from the landslide was believed to be between 300 and 1,000.

The SLM faction led by Abdulwahid al-Nur had earlier estimated

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