At least 46 people were murdered in airstrikes on a market south of Khartoum on Sunday, September 10, according to activists and a medical organisation.
The attack in Khartoum’s May area, where paramilitary forces were severely outnumbered by the military, left more than 50 people injured, according to a statement from the Sudan Doctors’ Union.
The injured and the deceased were sent to Bachar, which houses the closest hospital. It is one of the newest systems still in use in Khartoum, where around 5 million people are cooped up in their houses without running water or electricity the majority of the day.
The RSF blamed the military’s air force for Sunday’s attack, whiile the military said that it didn’t target civilians, describing the RSF accusations as “false and misleading claims.”
Sudan has been rocked by violence since mid-April, when tensions between the country’s strongmen, army general Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the paramilitary general by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, burst into open fighting.
The conflict has since spread to several parts of the country. In the Greater Khartoum area, RSF troops have commandeered civilian homes and turned them into operational bases. The military responded by bombing these residential areas, rights groups and activists say.
The number of internally displaced persons has nearly doubled since mid-April to reach at least 7.1 million people, according to the U.N. refugee agency.
