Monday December 16, 2024

38 killed in paramilitary forces attack in W. Sudan

Published : 16 Dec 2024, 00:12

  DF News Desk
People gather around bodies of victims killed in a paramilitary forces attack in Omdurman city, Sudan, on Dec. 10, 2024. File Photo: Khartoum State Government's Press Office/Handout via Xinhua.

The death toll from a drone attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a market in El Fasher, western Sudan, has climbed to 38, a non-governmental group said on Sunday, reported Xinhua.

Earlier in the day, state news agency SUNA reported that a drone attack by the RSF on a market in the Awlad Al-Reef neighborhood in El Fasher killed more than 15 people and injured many others.

"The death toll from the massacre in the Awlad Al-Reef neighborhood in El Fasher has risen to 38," the Coordination of Resistance Committees in El Fasher, a local non-governmental group, said in a statement.

The RSF has not commented on the incident.

Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF, which began in mid-April 2023, has killed more than 28,700 people and displaced over 14 million in the country, according to international organizations.