The death toll from a paramilitary attack in western Sudan has risen to 38
FILE - Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, secure the area where Dagalo attends a military-backed tribe's rally, in the East Nile province, Sudan, on June 22, 2019. An international rights group on Monday accused the paramilitary group in war-torn Sudan of sexual violence against women, including rape, gang rape, and forced and child marriage. A smaller number of incidents were also attributed to the military, it said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
Published 9:50 AM ET, Wednesday December 18, 2024
KHARTOUM – The death toll in a drone attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a market in El Fasher, western Sudan, has climbed to 38, a non-governmental group said on Sunday.
Earlier in the day, state news agency SUNA reported that a drone attack by the RSF on a market in the Awlad Al-Reef neighborhood in El Fasher killed more than 15 people and injured many others.
“The death toll from the massacre in the Awlad Al-Reef neighborhood in El Fasher has risen to 38,” the Coordination of Resistance Committees in El Fasher, a local non-governmental group, said in a statement.
According to foreign agencies, fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF began in mid-April 2023 and has killed over 28,700 people and displaced over 14 million in the country.
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