Five soldiers killed in mistaken army bombing of a military position in El Fasher
September 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least 40 civilians were killed on Sunday in an attack blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a town in the Sudanese state of Gezira, south of the capital, Khartoum, a local non-governmental organization has denounced.
The Abu Ghouta Resistance Committee said in a statement posted on its Facebook account that the RSF attacked the town of Guz al Naqa, committing “a massacre” that resulted in “more than 40 martyrs” and an unspecified number of wounded.
“There are still residents missing,” he said, before stressing that “the RSF militia has not allowed residents to re-enter after their incursion.” “There are several bodies inside the village that have not yet been buried,” he warned, before calling on the group to give the population permission to bury the victims.
At least five Sudanese soldiers were killed on Sunday after the army mistakenly attacked a military position in El Fasher, the capital of the North Darfur region (west), according to the Armed Forces, which also confirmed nine wounded, as reported by the Sudanese news portal Sudan Tribune.
The fighting in El Fasher, which has been under siege for months by paramilitaries trying to seize control of the town, has led to a mass exodus of the population. More than 1.5 million people were seeking refuge from the fighting in the town and surrounding displaced persons camps until the RSF began its offensive in November.
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 to form a new civilian government and revive the open transition following the 2019 overthrow of Omar Hassan al-Bashir, damaged by the coup d’état of October 2021, in which Prime Minister of Unity Abdallah Hamdok was overthrown.
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