Airstrike Kills 22 Amid Fighting Between Rival Parties in Sudan

Sun Jul 09 2023
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CAIRO: An airstrike on Saturday killed as many as 22 people, health officials said, in one of the deadliest strikes yet in 90-day of fighting between rival generals in Sudan.

According to Western media, the airstrike took place in the Dar es Salaam, Omdurman in Sudan. Health officials said that dozens of people were injured in the airstrike. The ministry of health also posted a video that showed dead bodies and citizens making effort to pull the dead people from the debris. Others tried to assist the injured people.

Airstrike Kills 22 Amid Fighting Between Rival Parties in Sudan

Earlier, an air attack killed as many as 17 people including 5 children in the capital of Sudan, Khartoum. According to Arab News, while the RSF reportedly quickly dominated Khartoum, Omdurman and Bahri following fighting broke out on April 15, the country’s military has started artillery and air strikes.

The RSF accused the army for Saturday’s strike and other attacks on residential areas in Omdurman, where fighting has fumed between the warring parties, locals said. The army has reportedly tried to cut off a vital supply line for the RSF there.

A spokesman for the army was not immediately available for comments over the development. Local people said it was difficult to determine which warring party was responsible for the strike. They said the army’s airplanes have targeted RSF forces in the city and the RSF has also used drones and anti-aircraft arms against the army.

At the time of the strike early Saturday, the army was targeting the RSF, which took people’s homes as shields, and the RSF personnel fired anti-aircraft rounds at the attacking planes, locals said.

The war broke out in mid-April, plugging months of growing tensions between the army, commanded by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the RSF, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo.

Sudan’s Health Minister Haitham Mohammed Ibrahim said last month that over 3,000 people were killed and 6,000 injured in the clashes between the two sides during the conflict.

Over 2.9 million people have fled their areas to safer places inside Sudan or crossed into other countries, UN said.

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