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

The assistance workers have delivered the first humanitarian deliveries to survivors of landslides, which it was reported that hundreds of people in a remote mountain village in the Western Darfur in Sudan were killed.

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

“The families in Tarsin have lost everything. It took our team more than a whole day along a rocky, muddy and hilly route to reach this devastated community,” said Francesco Lanino, Save The Children.

It remains unclear how many people have died.

The armed group responsible for the area has set the number of 1000, but the Ministry of Health says only two bodies have been restored.

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

“We restored 370 bodies and buried them. Others are still trapped under the rocks, and some of them were taken from water waters,” says Ibrahim Suleiman, one of the local leaders in the Daramo area, in a video viewed by AFP news agency.

The shots shared by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A), which controls the area, showed residents and rescuers gathered in a makeshift place for funeral, praying for the victims set to rest, according to AFP.

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

SLM/A remains neutral in the Civil War, which has been devastating Sudan for more than two years and many people have fled to the Mara Mountains, where the landslide happened to escape from the fighting.

Antoine Gerard, the UN Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, earlier gave the figure of 370 deaths, but said it was difficult to evaluate the scale of disaster or accurate mortality, since the area was so difficult to reach.

The UN said the assessment between the Agency “will strive to provide verified figures in the coming days.”

On Thursday, an emergency team of 11 employees riding donkeys supplied medical supplies, food, water and tarpaulins to the affected communities in a trip, which takes six hours, said in a message to the children.

The team includes medical staff, child protection experts and a mental health team, the agency said, adding that up to 1000 people had been affected.

Mobile health clinics and emergency medical teams are also located to provide immediate care, with UN agencies and partners preparing to send more deliveries to meet additional needs.

“Tarzin is one of the most isolated villages in one of the most remote parts of Sudan. The heavy rains and lightning floods have made the reaction extremely challenging,” said the country’s deputy director in programs and operations for “Save the Children in Sudan.”

In a statement, SLM/A said that the “catastrophic humanitarian” situation in Tarasin requires emergency international intervention.

The ongoing conflict in Sudan has also made a great deal of rescue efforts, according to another help organization, World Vision.

“With hundreds of lost lives and broken communities, we compete against the weather and the huge challenges of reaching the most vulnerable,” said Simon Manet, national director of World Vision in Sudan, describing the situation as “tragedy on an unthinkable scale.”

About 150 people have been displaced by Tarzin and neighboring villages, with families now being sheltered in nearby communities, according to the International Migration Organization (IOM).

The landslide draws up a deepening humanitarian crisis in Sudan, a nation that is already in the grip of a crisis in which 30 million people need help.

In recent weeks, heavy rains and floods have affected at least 21 districts in Sudan, with fears of disease outbreaks and experts predicting an unusually wet season, continuing in September.