12:29 BST
Peter Mwai and Thomas Copeland
BBC Verify
We have been analysing satellite imagery of western Sudan to get a better idea about the impact of a landslide on Sunday.
Uncertainty remains over how many people were killed in the remote Marra Mountains of Sudan’s Darfur region. The armed group in control of the area, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A), initially said more than 1,000 people died. The United Nations has estimated there were 370 deaths.
Sudan’s Ministry of Health has since issued a statement, external saying it believes only two people were killed.
Independently verifying the landslide’s impact and death toll has been made more challenging by the remote location where it happened near to the village of Tarseen.
By comparing satellite images taken in March with those captured after the landslide this week, we’ve identified about seven buildings, along with two additional structures without roofs, that were washed away at the convergence of two channels of the mud flow.
Two groups of buildings on either side of this settlement appear to have been unaffected.
Pictures and videos posted on social media by the SLM/A show that rescue efforts have been concentrated in this area.
We have also confirmed an image shared by the armed group showing people gathered around what appears to be freshly dug burial mounds. We have counted about 40 freshly dug areas of soil of a size consistent with a grave. It’s possible that more than one body has been buried under each of these mounds. In a corresponding video, the people gathered around seem to be saying prayers.
Using the satellite imagery we can see the spot where these mounds are now located was not disturbed by the landslide, which further suggests this is a burial site dug in the days after it occurred.
The scale of this presumed burial site suggests the death toll may be lower than SLM/A’s 1,000 figure, although we can’t confirm whether there are additional gravesites in the area or whether there are more bodies yet to be recovered.
Additional verification by Emma Pengelly
Image source, Sudan Liberation Movement/Army