Hundreds of homes have been destroyed or flooded this week by the rupture of a dam due to heavy rains in Blue Nile State, in south-eastern Sudan, an official said on Saturday (August 1) without reporting. victims.
The dam collapsed Thursday in the locality of Bout, " destroying more than 600 houses and flooding others, " said Nousseiba Farouk, reached by telephone by AFP in Khartoum. The inhabitants managed to flee their homes.
According to local media, the dam retained 5 million m3 of drinking water and for agriculture. " We do not yet have an exact idea of the damage because we have not been able to reach the flooded area ," said Nousseiba Farouk.
Torrential rains usually fall in Sudan from June to October. And the country faces severe flooding every year.
