September 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least 15 civilians, including several children, have been killed and more than 60 wounded in an artillery attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a market in the Sudanese town of Karari, north of the capital Khartoum, authorities said.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Health for the state of Khartoum, Mohamed Ibrahim, said that “the RSF attacked the Sabrin market in Karari, which was full of citizens,” before stating that several of the injured were in critical condition, so it is feared that the death toll could rise in the coming hours.
The RSF has attacked Karari several times in recent days as part of its offensive against the army around the city of Omdurman, adjacent to Khartoum, Sudanese news portal Sudan Tribune reported. Authorities have closed the market after the attack due to deteriorating security.
Sudan is in the throes of a civil war following hostilities that broke out in April 2023 amid heightened tensions over the integration of the RSF into the armed forces, a key part of an agreement signed in December 2022 to form a new civilian government and revive the open transition following the 2019 overthrow of Omar Hassan al-Bashir, damaged by the October 2021 coup that ousted Prime Minister of Unity Abdallah Hamdok.
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