Sudan: At least 30 killed after a drone attack in Khartoum as rival troops battle
New Delhi: A drone strike on an open market in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Sunday. In this incident at least 30 people were killed. On social media, the activist group posted footage showing bodies wrapped in white sheets in the open courtyard of the hospital.
At least 36 others were wounded in the attack in Khartoum May neighborhood, according to the medical workers. According to the information, A powerful paramilitary group and the army battle for control of the country. It was not immediately clear which party was behind Sunday attack.
Airstrikes and Indiscriminate shelling by both factions are not uncommon in war of Sudan, which has turned the Greater Khartoum area into a battlefield. Since mid-April, Sudan has been rocked by violence, when tensions between the country’s army led by General Abdel Fattah Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces commanded by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo escalated into open fighting. Since then, clashes have spread to many parts of the country.
Rights groups and activists say the military responded by bombing residential areas. In the Greater Khartoum area, which includes Khartoum, Omdurman and Bahri cities, RSF troops have captured civilian homes and converted them into operational bases. In the Western Darfur region – the scene of a genocidal campaign in the early 2000s – the conflict has devolved into ethnic violence, according to rights groups and the United Nations, with the RSF and allied Arab militias attacking ethnic African groups.
More than 4,000 people have been killed in the conflict, according to report for August. However, doctors and activists say the real toll is almost certainly much higher. The number of internally displaced people has nearly doubled since mid-April to at least 7.1 million people, according to the UN refugee agency. Another 1.1 million are refugees in neighboring countries.