One report says 150-200 people are missing after heavy rain led to Arbaat dam giving way in area already hit by civil war
Surging waters have burst through a dam, wiping out at least 20 villages and leaving at least 30 people dead but probably many more in eastern Sudan, the United Nations has said, devastating a region already reeling from months of civil war.
Torrential rains caused floods that overwhelmed the Arbaat dam on Sunday, which is 25 miles (40km) north of Port Sudan, the de facto national capital and base for the government, diplomats, aid agencies and hundreds of thousands of displaced people.
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