‘RSF attack kills 16 civilians in Sudan’s capital Khartoum’

Khartoum: 16 civilians have been killed in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. This information was given by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) on Sunday. The army said the RSF carried out “indiscriminate shelling” in Karari and Wad al-Bakhit areas in northern Omdurman, northwest of Khartoum, killing 13 civilians and injuring several others. “The RSF also launched an attack in the Al-Masied area (south of Khartoum) and fired indiscriminately at civilians, killing three civilians,” the army said.

Clashes between the two forces also took place in the Al-Shajara area, south of Khartoum, in which five RSF members were killed and six others wounded, the army statement said. Meanwhile, the RSF accused the SAF of bombing a residential area in Nyala, the capital of Sudan’s southern state of Darfur, killing 14 civilians and injuring many more. The paramilitary force said in a statement that 60 of its soldiers were killed on Sunday during an attack on SAF’s Corps of Engineers base west of the city of Omdurman.

Sudan has been witnessing deadly armed clashes between the SAF and the RSF in Khartoum and other areas since 15 April, according to the Sudanese Ministry of Health, which has left more than 3,000 dead and more than 6,000 injured. More than 4.5 million people have been displaced inside and outside Sudan due to the conflict, according to the latest update from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.