Deaths in Sudan top 38 from rains, floods, storms

04/08/2013 23:30

According to Khartoum newspapers on Saturday, torrential rains followed by floods have killed 38 people: 28 to the east of the Nile in Khartoum state and 10 in River Nile state. The fatalities were reportedly caused by drowning, houses collapsing, lightning, and electrocution. Sources have told Radio Dabanga that in the ‘Libya market’ area of Sudan’s largest city, Omdurman, “hundreds of citizens have protested against the government’s failure to react in the face of disasters, floods and rain”. The crowd chanted anti-government slogans, and “demanded the punishment of the officials of Libya and Prince markets”. Police then used batons and tear gas to block the demonstrators and arrested a number of them, the reports state. File photo by Fred Noy/UN Photo Related: ‘Record rainfall levels’ in North Darfur destroy 2,000 homes (2 August 2013)

According to Khartoum newspapers on Saturday, torrential rains followed by floods have killed 38 people: 28 to the east of the Nile in Khartoum state and 10 in River Nile state.

The fatalities were reportedly caused by drowning, houses collapsing, lightning, and electrocution.

Sources have told Radio Dabanga that in the ‘Libya market’ area of Sudan’s largest city, Omdurman, “hundreds of citizens have protested against the government’s failure to react in the face of disasters, floods and rain”.

The crowd chanted anti-government slogans, and “demanded the punishment of the officials of Libya and Prince markets”.

Police then used batons and tear gas to block the demonstrators and arrested a number of them, the reports state.

File photo by Fred Noy/UN Photo

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