Air traffic has resumed at Khartoum Airport after being shut down for several hours due to heavy rains that led to severe flooding, and the international airport was closed to traffic.
And authorities indicated that the main runway at the airport was closed after the plane ran aground due to flooding water so that the ambulance could rescue passengers without injury.
Sources indicated that traffic has returned to normal, whether arriving or taking off.
The Sudanese Civil Defense said the death toll from heavy rains in Sudan has risen to 89.
The emergency meeting of the National Civil Defense Council also recommended that an inventory of all available support, including housing and other materials, be taken and distributed fairly and urgently among the states most affected by heavy rains and rains, namely the states of “Nahral Nile, Al Jazeera. , Kassala and Sennar.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Education in charge of Gezira State in Sudan confirmed that heavy rains that hit the Managil districts and the southern Gezira region affected 95 secondary and primary schools.
The Met Office has warned on this year’s season figures that rainfall will be higher than average for this period, with showers and sudden heavy rains in most states of the country, and that these states will experience high levels of rain that requires caution and caution. especially in low-lying areas where it rains heavily. Most of the streets of the capital, Khartoum, are down to the lakes.
