Paramilitary attack on shelter leaves 8 dead in Sudan
PORT SUDAN : Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed eight civilians in a drone strike on a shelter in the besieged western city of El-Fasher, a doctor said today.
'The RSF bombed a shelter where citizens had taken refuge using a drone, late on Tuesday night,' the doctor at El-Fasher Teaching Hospital told AFP.
They spoke on condition of anonymity for their safety, as health workers have been repeatedly targeted, using a satellite internet connection to circumvent the communications blackout.
Since April 2023, the RSF has been at war with Sudan's regular army.
The conflict has killed tens of thousands, caused the world's largest hunger and displacement crisis and torn the country apart.
El-Fasher is the only state capital in Sudan's vast Darfur region still outside RSF control, despite a siege that began in May last year.
The United Nations has repeatedly warned of the plight of the city's trapped civilians, who shelter from shelling in makeshift bunkers dug in courtyards and in front of houses.
The bunker bombed on Tuesday 'was sheltering dozens of people', an eyewitness told AFP.
The city's resistance committee, one of hundreds of volunteer groups coordinating frontline aid across the country, said the city was rocked by RSF artillery throughout the day yesterday.
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