Khartoum
Sudanese pro-democracy activists reported on Friday that around 40 people were killed in “heavy shelling” carried out by paramilitary forces the previous day in Khartoum's sister city of Omdurman.
“So far, the death toll among civilians is estimated at 40 and more than 50 injured, some seriously,” the Karali Resistance Committee said in a statement on social media, blaming the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for the shelling.
“The exact number of casualties in Omdurman is still unknown,” said the group, one of hundreds of similar grassroots pro-democracy groups working across Sudan.
“Most of the dead were taken to Arnao University Hospital, while the rest were either taken to private hospitals or buried by their families,” it added.
The attack came a day after the RSF was accused of attacking the village of Wad al-Nourra in Al Jazeera province, south of Khartoum, on Wednesday, killing more than 104 people, including 35 children.
Sudan has been ravaged by war since fighting broke out in April 2023 between forces led by army commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the RSF, commanded by Burhan's former deputy commander, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
The war has killed thousands in just over a year, with some estimates putting the death toll at 150,000, according to US special envoy to Sudan Tom Perriello.
More than seven million people have fled their homes for other parts of Sudan since the war began, joining 2.8 million already displaced by previous conflicts in the country of 48 million people.
Daily fighting continues across the country, including in the capital, and both sides have been accused of war crimes, including deliberate attacks on civilians, indiscriminate shelling of residential areas and obstructing humanitarian aid.
