A dam busts in Sudan wiping out villages

A dam has burst and wiped out at least five villages, leaving an unknown number of people dead in eastern Sudan

Officials have said the flooding has devastated a region already reeling from months of civil war.

Torrential rains caused floods that overwhelmed Arbaat Dam on Sunday displacing hundreds of thousands of people.

Head of the water authority for Red Sea state Omar Eissa Haroun said the area is unrecognizable with electricity and water pipes are destroyed