[AAWSAT] Days after a devastating flood swallowed up his village, Alsediq Abdelqader bulled his truck through the waters in a desperate attempt to locate his small house north of the Sudanese capital.Flash floods from the Nile inundated his home last week in Wad Ramli village on the eastern river bank, expelling him and his family who managed to clamber aboard a ferry to the nearest dry land.
His drive through the flash floods was not easy as he had to avoid floating mattresses, house appliances and broken tree branches.
"My entire home is destroyed," said the 57-year-old. "I have lived all my life in this village and I have never seen a flood like this before."
"I'm struggling to recognize my house and trying to identify it, as some others have done, by the trees around it," he added, according to AFP.
His home is among thousands destroyed or damaged by the floods that struck at least 15 states, affecting nearly 200,000 people across Sudan.
The worst hit area was White Nile state in the south.
About 62 people were killed and nearly 100 injured overall, said the official SUNA news agency quoting a health ministry official as saying the crisis "did not reach the level of being declared a disaster."
Volunteers and aid workers immediately rushed to Wad Ramli when the savage floods hit.
Authorities dispatched lorries and boats to wade through the thick water to rescue families and salvage their furniture and valuables.