Native media reported that the dam broke on Saturday evening resulting from heavy seasonal rains within the northeast.
A dam has collapsed in northeastern Sudan because the nation faces heavy rains inflicting disastrous flooding, the Federal Ministry of Well being mentioned.
The ministry mentioned in an announcement late Sunday that the Arbaat dam north of Port Sudan had collapsed, killing 4 folks within the floodwaters and sweeping away houses.
He added that assets had been deployed to the world to assist these stranded.
In keeping with a neighborhood official quoted by Sudanese media outlet al-Taghyeer, the demise toll might attain a minimum of 60 folks, with many extra lacking.
Ali Issa, a neighborhood, informed Al Jazeera he had obtained a message saying folks have been trapped in autos resulting from flooding.
“There have been seven vehicles with households, aged folks and youngsters,” he mentioned. “We got here to see what had occurred, however we couldn’t get to the dam.”
Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan mentioned the Arbaat Dam is the primary supply of water provide for Port Sudan, the Pink Sea metropolis that turned the executive capital when combating took over the capital, Khartoum.
The Sudanese navy has been combating the paramilitary Fast Assist Forces (RSF) since April 2023, a battle that has brought about mass displacement and hardship for the folks of Sudan.
Port Sudan and its surrounding areas might face extreme shortages of ingesting water because of the dam collapse, Morgan mentioned.
Native media reported that the dam broke on Saturday evening resulting from heavy rains, nevertheless it has been troublesome to collect precise particulars resulting from cell community outages.
Arbaat, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Port Sudan, is a part of Sudan’s system of dams that assist handle flood waters and is the place the 2 higher branches of the Nile River meet in Sudan.
The nation has been grappling with heavy rains and flooding since late June, and the United Nations Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) mentioned the tough climate has affected some 317,000 folks (56,450 households) throughout 16 states.
The worst-affected states embody North Darfur, River Nile and West Darfur, OCHA mentioned.
Heavy rains have exacerbated the humanitarian disaster brought on by the battle.
Along with a deepening meals disaster, Sudan can be dealing with a cholera outbreak as floodwaters contaminate the water provide.
