Khartoum.
At least 20 civilians were killed and 17 others were injured in attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) on two camps in Sudan’s El Fashar city. A local government official gave this information on Saturday. “Last night an RSF militia drone dropped four bombs on the Koz Bena school in El Fasher, a camp for hundreds of displaced people,” said Ibrahim Khatir, director general of North Darfur state’s health department.
“19 civilians were killed and 16 others were injured.” “This morning the militias shelled the Abu Shouk displacement camp, north of El Fashar,” he said. “One civilian died and a girl was injured.” RSF has not issued any comment on the attack on the Abu Zeriga area. Earlier on December 4, the governor of Sudan’s Darfur region had announced that 20 civilians were killed in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) in an area in Sudan’s North Darfur state. “The RSF carried out a massacre in the Abu Zeriga area, south of the city of El Fashar, killing 20 civilians and wounding 20 others,” Governor Minnie Arco Minnawi said in a post on her Facebook page. Minnawi said the attack took place on December 3. He appealed to the international community and humanitarian organizations to send an international investigation team to investigate the crimes and bring the criminals to justice. Also appealed to aid organizations to intensify efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to the affected population amid the deepening humanitarian crisis in the region. Meanwhile, the non-governmental Sudanese Doctors Network said 21 civilians were killed and 13 others were injured in the attack. From 10 May, fierce clashes broke out in El Fashar between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF, engaging in a brutal conflict. According to the latest estimates from international organizations, Sudan was in the grip of a devastating conflict between the SAF and the RSF from mid-April 2023. It killed at least 29,683 people and displaced more than 14 million people.
