Two children were killed in Babanusa when a house collapsed during heavy rains. The accident happened in the Hai Al Salam neighborhood of the town.
Several other parts of the western sector of South Kordofan State also witnessed on Wednesday heavy rains including in Muglad, Kajera and Meiram. The rains continued till late hours Wednesday night, causing significant loss of houses and properties, especially in Babanusa and Meiram.
Citizens have appealed to authorities to declare these areas disaster zones. They said that the situation requires humanitarian organizations to intervene while the state government and commissioners should enable relief to the affected residents of these cities and provide the most basic necessities of shelter, tarpaulins and tents.
The residents added that the hospitals have received a large number of injured patients due to various accidents in which houses have collapsed.
Correction: When this article originally appeared both the headline and text of the article stated that the accident occurred in Meiram; the house collapsed in Babanusa.