Intense fighting continues for the third day in a row in Sudan, with air strikes on Khartoum airport

(CNN) — Fighting continues into a third day in Khartoum, Sudan, according to eyewitness reports provided to CNN and videos that have been verified by CNN.

Fighting between the Sudanese paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Army continued through Sunday night and intensified after dawn prayers, just like on Sunday. Eyewitnesses told CNN they heard heavy mortar and artillery fire in the early hours of Monday morning.

Eyewitnesses told CNN that there had been an increase in airstrikes around Khartoum airport and on Sudanese army garrisons. There were artillery attacks east of the Khartoum airport.

The fighting this Monday morning is concentrating around the garrisons of the Sudanese army and the (RSF), eyewitnesses told CNN, and videos have been verified showing how military planes and helicopters attacked the airport.

The videos show the destruction of the Sudan Armed Forces General Command building and the charred building that remains after Sunday’s raging fire; It is located near the Khartoum International Airport.

Local resistance committees are asking civilians to stay in their homes: a tweet from a local resident read: “We are trapped in our own houses with little or no protection. And all we hear is one explosion after another. What It’s happening exactly and where we don’t know, but it seems like it’s right over our heads.”

Sudan TV remains off the air; Television employees have told CNN that it is in the hands of the Sudanese paramilitary group RSF.