Strikes on Darfur market in Sudan killed more than 100, rights group says
Summary
Military strikes hit a market and a nearby civilian neighbourhood in Nyala, Sudan, on Monday. Rights and medical groups reported widely differing casualty figures, and the total could not be independently verified amid limited access to the city.Key Facts
- Emergency Lawyers reported more than 100 people killed and 113 wounded in Monday’s attacks, saying most victims were women and children.
- Sudan Doctors Network preliminarily reported 21 deaths and more than 40 injuries, and said shelling caused most of the deaths.
- Doctors Without Borders said a hospital it supports received 36 bodies, 21 in civilian clothing, and treated more than 150 wounded people.
- Witnesses told the Associated Press that RSF fighters and civilian vendors were at the market when a drone struck around 8 p.m.
- An army-aligned official said more than 150 RSF recruits were killed in a targeted air strike at Dumaya camp, west of Nyala.
- Doctors Without Borders said a second strike hit a civilian neighbourhood and urged all sides to protect civilians.
- Nyala is the de facto capital of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
- Sudan’s war between the RSF and the army has caused severe poverty, food shortages and mass displacement.
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