translated from Spanish: Floods leave at least 60 dead in Sudan

Flash floods have hit Sudan for weeks, causing at least 60 deaths and destroying thousands of homes since late July, the country’s authorities and the UNAsimism humanitarian agency report, more than twenty people were injured and more than 30,000 homes were damaged across the country, the Ministry of the Interior said.There are more than 185,000 people affected by heavy rains and floods in all but one of Sudan’s 18 provinces , according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.Floods also damaged at least 14 schools, and some 1,600 water sources have been contaminated or no longer functioning, it is added in the report. Video footage circulating on the internet shows floods blocking roads and taking people’s homes and belongings in different parts of this northeast African country.More than 1,200 head of cattle were lost and several hectares of crops were affected in the middle of the agricultural season, the UN added. The Bout dam broke in late July after heavy rains and flooding in the southeastern province of Blue Nile, releasing 5 million cubic meters of water (170 million cubic feet) and flooding at least 13 neighborhoods in the town of Bout, the international body added.” The collapse of the dam is likely to have serious long-term consequences for more than 100,000 people, including (displaced people in the country) and refugees, who depend on it as their main source of water,” the statement states. Between July and August last year, flooding caused a total of 78 deaths in 16 of Sudan’s 18 provinces, according to the UN.

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