Deadly artillery shelling hits Omdurman market in Sudan, 56 killed

The Health Ministry said astatine slightest 158 radical were besides wounded successful Saturday’s onslaught that was blamed connected the RSF.

At slightest 56 radical person been killed successful Sudan aft artillery shelling and aerial attacks connected a rootlike marketplace successful Omdurman.

The Health Ministry said astatine slightest 158 radical were besides wounded successful Saturday’s onslaught that was blamed connected the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Khalid al-Aleisir, curate of civilization and authorities spokesperson, condemned the attack, saying the casualties included galore women and children. He said the onslaught caused wide destruction.

“This transgression enactment adds to the bloody grounds of this militia,” helium said successful a statement. “It constitutes a blatant usurpation of planetary humanitarian law.”

Witnesses said the artillery shelling came from occidental Omdurman, wherever the RSF remains successful control, and was supported by drones.

One nonmigratory further southbound successful Omdurman told the AFP quality bureau that the RSF was firing connected aggregate streets astatine once, adding that “rockets and artillery shells are falling.”

“The shells fell successful the mediate of the rootlike market, that’s wherefore determination are truthful galore victims and wounded,” 1 subsister added.

Staff astatine the adjacent al-Nao Hospital said they person been overwhelmed by the fig of casualties and that wounded were “still being brought to the hospital”. A infirmary unpaid said they were successful dire request of “shrouds, humor donors and stretchers to transport the wounded”.

In a abstracted incidental successful Khartoum, 2 civilians were killed and dozens wounded successful an aerial onslaught connected an RSF-controlled area, the section Emergency Response Room (ERR) was quoted by AFP arsenic saying.

The ERR is 1 of hundreds of unpaid committees crossed Sudan coordinating exigency care.

War betwixt the Sudanese service and RSF broke out successful April 2023 implicit the integration of the 2 forces. It has killed tens of thousands of people, driven millions from their homes and plunged fractional of the colonisation into hunger.

Saturday’s onslaught comes a time aft RSF commandant Mohamed Hamdan Daglo pledged to retake the superior from the army.

“We expelled them [from Khartoum] before, and we volition expel them again,” helium told troops successful a uncommon video address.

Sudan’s service retook respective bases successful Khartoum past month, including its pre-war headquarters, pushing the RSF progressively into the city’s outskirts.

Sudan’s superior has turned into a ammunition of its erstwhile aforesaid and tens of thousands person been killed crossed the state owed to the violence.

Entire neighbourhoods person been emptied retired and taken implicit by fighters and astatine slightest 3.6 cardinal radical person fled the capital, according to the United Nations.

At slightest 106,000 radical are besides estimated to beryllium suffering from famine successful Khartoum, according to the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, with a further 3.2 cardinal experiencing situation levels of hunger.