According to local NGO Emergency Lawyers, attacks in North Darfur on Monday left dozens of civilians dead People gather around bodies of victims killed in a paramilitary forces attack in Omdurman city, Sudan, on Dec. 10, 2024. © Global Look Press/Khartoum State Government’s Pre
More than 100 people have been killed and hundreds others injured in Sudan after warplanes targeted a marketplace in the war-torn African nation’s Darfur region, according to local rights groups.
The Al-Fashir Resistance Committee, an activist group, was cited by Reuters as saying that more than eight barrel bombs hit the market in the North Darfur town of Kabkabiya on Monday.
Emergency Lawyers, a human rights NGO based in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, called the attack a “horrific massacre,” claiming that over 100 people were killed and hundreds more injured, including children.
“This attack on civilians on market day is a flagrant violation of international law. We demand an immediate investigation into this crime,” the organization wrote on X.
The northeastern African state has been embroiled in a brutal civil war between the national Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since mid-April 2023, owing to disagreements over its planned transition to civilian rule.
The conflict, which first broke out in the capital, has sp
In October, local activists reported at least 124 deaths in a new wave of attacks, accusing paramilitary forces of carrying out massacres against civilians.
In a statement posted on X, Emergency Lawyers accused the RSF of indiscriminate shelling of the army-controlled city of Omdurman, just across the River Nile and part of Khartoum state.
The group said 14 people were killed when fighters from the RSF fired heavy artillery shells at a passenger bus on Tuesday. Another bomb fell on a house, killing six members of the same family, it stated. The Khartoum state government also reported that the attacks had left more than 65 people dead and dozens wounded. (RT)