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Roughly 1,000 people have died following a devastating landslide that obliterated a remote village in Sudan’s Darfur region.

Getting into it: The landslide hit the village of Tarasin on Sunday after days of rainfall in the Marrah Mountains. Entire homes were swept away, burying the village and its residents under tons of debris. The Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A), which controls the area, reported that only one person survived the disaster, describing the village as “completely leveled to the ground.“

Photos from the area show no site of the village, with survivors searching for bodies in the rubble.

The SLM/A has issued an urgent appeal to the United Nations and international aid organizations to assist with the recovery of bodies and the delivery of humanitarian relief. A UN humanitarian coordinator in Sudan has since confirmed that the UN and its partners are working to mobilize assistance, though they acknowledged the significant challenges of reaching the site.

This all comes as Sudan’s civil war has made it nearly impossible to get aid into disaster-hit regions like Tarasin. Since fighting broke out in 2023, large parts of Darfur have been cut off from humanitarian access.