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The number of people killed by floods caused by heavy seasonal rains in Sudan rose to 102, authorities said Monday.
The floods also injured at least 46 people, damaged more than half a million people and caused the total and partial collapse of more than 100,000 homes.
The Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources said that the Nile river water in most of the upper sources has reached unprecedented levels.
This year’s flood and rainfall rates have surpassed the records set in 1946 and 1988, with expectations that the indicators will continue to rise.
Anadolu Agency, citing the spokesman for the National Civil Defense Council, reported that the village of Eltomaniat, which is located north of Khartoum, had been completely submerged.
The destruction of the village, which reportedly contains around 350 houses, left all its residents homeless.
The nation’s Defense and Security Council has already declared a three-month state of national emergency and designated the country as a “natural disaster zone” due to heavy flooding.
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who described the floods as “catastrophic and painful,” said his administration was working to establish plans to decisively deal with the floods in the future.
Sudan regularly experiences floods caused by heavy rains between the months of June to October.
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