Baku-APA. At least 10 people have been killed and around 3,000 houses destroyed at Omdurman city in the Sudanese capital Khartoum due to heavy rain and floods, local authorities announced Saturday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
"More than 10 people were killed at Umbadah locality due to heavy rain that lasted for more than eight hours, while over 3,000 houses have been damaged, completely or partially", said a statement by Omdurman's Umbadah locality today.
The statement warned that the area is exposed to expected floods coming from nearby high areas west of Umdurman city, where the authorities urged the citizens to be cautious.
The Sudanese Meteorological Authority earlier forecasted heavy rains above the average at all areas of Sudan.
For about a week the Sudanese capital Khartoum has been witnessing heavy rains and floods that led to the killing of dozens of people and collapsing of hundreds of houses.
Meanwhile, about 200 houses have collapsed in Sudan's Gezira State, some 200 kilometers south of the capital Khartoum due to heavy rain that hit the state on Friday. However, no human causalities have been reported so far.
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