56 People Killed as Fight Escalates in Sudan

No fewer than 56 people were killed by artillery shelling and air strikes across greater Khartoum in Sudan on Saturday.

DAILY POST reports that Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, RSF, have been locked in a battle for power since April 2023 that has intensified this month with the army fighting to take back control of the capital.

According to a medical source and the health ministry, RSF shelling killed at least 54 and injured 158 people at a busy market in army-controlled Omdurman, part of greater Khartoum, on Saturday, overwhelming the city’s Al-Nao Hospital.

“The shells hit in the middle of the vegetable market, that’s why the victims and the wounded are so many,” a survivor said.

However, the RSF denied carrying out the attack.

Local Emergency Response Room, one of hundreds of volunteer groups coordinating emergency care across Sudan, said that across the Nile in Khartoum proper, two civilians were killed and dozens wounded in an air strike on an RSF-controlled area.

It was gathered that although the RSF has used drones in attacks including on Saturday, the fighter jets of the regular armed forces maintain a monopoly on air strikes.

Both the RSF and the army have been repeatedly accused of targeting civilians and indiscriminately shelling residential areas.

In addition to killing tens of thousands of people, the war has uprooted more than 12 million and decimated Sudan’s fragile infrastructure, forcing most health facilities out of service.