Hundreds of Sudanese villagers were killed when a landslide engulfed their village in Darfur, a region already stricken by famine and war, according to officials and a local rebel group that issued an urgent appeal today for international help.

The landslide happened Sunday after days of heavy rain and leveled the village of Tarsin in the remote Marra mountains, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army said in a statement.

The rebel group said that as many as 1,000 people had been killed in the disaster, with just a single survivor in the village. The toll was based on estimates of the village population.

The top U.N. official in Sudan, Luca Renda, said in a statement that 300 to 1,000 people may have died. Sudan’s government and aid workers scrambling to reach the affected area offered simil

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