In the remote mountain village of Tarasin in Sudan's western Darfur, three successive landslides struck without warning last week.

"The people lost everything," Francesco Lanino, operations director at Save the Children, told AFP via Zoom from Port Sudan after a team from the charity arrived in the devastated village in Sudan's Jebel Marra region.

Torrential rains had saturated the mountains above and when the hillside finally gave way, it collapsed in seconds -- burying homes, livestock and entire families under a tide of mud.

"When our team arrived in the village, of course it was hard for them to imagine that under the mud there was an entire village and there were hundreds of bodies", said Lanino.

The latest figures from local authorities and Save the Children put the death toll at 373 confirmed bodies recovered, many of them children.

But the true figure is believed to be far higher, with more than 1,000 people feared dead.

Only 150 survivors, including 40 children, have been found from Tarasin........

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