At least 65 killed in bombings in Sudan since Saturday – Most victims were children

In El Fasher in the Darfur region of Sudan, 65 people, most of them children, have been killed since Saturday in shelling carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), as local mutual aid committees announced yesterday. The DTY has been engaged in a war with the Sudanese armed forces for over fifteen months. Fierce hostilities have been raging since early May in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, the only urban center in western Sudan that has not yet fallen to the paramilitaries. The coordination of the El Fasher resistance committees reported yesterday that “the DTY killed in just three days more than 43 children, 13 women and 9 men”, residents of the city. “In one day alone, more than 70 rockets were fired by the Janjaweed paramilitaries against hospitals, homes, Islamic mosques and markets,” the statement continued, using the name of Arab militias that have carried out massacres in Darfur since 2003 — successor […]
Source: News Beast

You may also like