Activists denounce at least 30 dead in a new bombing by the Sudanese Army in the center of the country

MADRID 6 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least 30 people have died and more than 100 have been injured this past Saturday in a bombardment by the Sudanese Army in the central state of North Kordofan, as local lawyers associations have reported to the ‘Sudan Tribune’.

The bombing occurred specifically in the Hamra al-Sheikh area and has also reached parts of the town of Abu Zuama, which includes some of the roads that connect the country’s capital, Khartoum, with the western region of Darfur, one of the epicenters of the conflict that broke out in April last year between the Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)

According to media sources, the RSF has been using these roads as improvised landing strips for their aerial weapons supplies for months.

In this sense, the NGO Emergency Lawyers has denounced in a statement the number of victims caused by “at least six bombs” launched by the Army that ended up hitting the main market of Hamra al Sheikh, as well as homes in neighboring areas.

It is worth remembering that local activists reported this past Saturday that 59 and 70 people died and more than 200 were injured as a result of another bombing carried out on Friday by the Sudanese Army on a market in the city of Al Kuma, in the western region of Darfur. North.

Since the middle of this week, several regions in the north and northwest of North Darfur state have witnessed violent clashes between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces. These clashes are an extension of the fighting that has taken place in the city of El Fasher, the state capital, since last March.

Sudan is mired in a civil war following hostilities that broke out in April 2023 within the framework of increased tensions over the integration of the RSF within the Armed Forces, a key part of a signed agreement in December 2022 to form a new civilian government and reactivate the transition opened after the 2019 overthrow of Omar Hasan al Bashir, damaged by the coup d’état of October 2021, in which the then transition minister, Abdullah Hamdok, was overthrown. .