In One Of The Bloodiest Airstrikes Of The Sudanese War, 46 People Are Killed, And Several Others Are Injured
According to local activists, airstrikes on a Khartoum market on Sunday resulted in at least 46 fatalities and several injuries, making it one of the bloodiest single attacks in Sudan’s conflict’s nearly five-month duration.
The explosion in southern Khartoum occurred around a week after another air strike, also in southern Khartoum, claimed the lives of 20 civilians on September 2.
The local resistance committee, one of numerous organizations that once organized pro-democracy marches and are now aiding in the war, reported that the death toll from Sunday’s “Qouro market massacre” had grown to 46 by evening.
The committee updated an earlier death toll of 30 in its announcement. It further stated that there were “dozens wounded” and that the adjacent Bashair hospital was still receiving casualties.
The Qouro market area was bombarded by military aircraft about 7:15 am (05:15 GMT), according to the committee.
To help treat the “increasing number of injured people arriving,” the hospital had made a “urgent appeal” to all nearby medical specialists.
According to a conservative estimate from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, the conflict between army head Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who is in charge of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), started on April 15 and has claimed over 7,500 lives.
Around twenty people were murdered in an airstrike on a residential neighborhood of Omdurman, Khartoum’s sister city, at the beginning of July, which the UN condemned.
Million’s Uprooted
While RSF fighters continue to rule the city’s streets, the military forces maintain control of the sky over Khartoum.
The army has been accused of repeatedly bombarding the neighborhoods where the paramilitaries have set up shop without discrimination, displacing families, and occupying properties.
Positioning oneself in areas and structures that are occupied by civilians is “possibly in violation of the Geneva Conventions,” according to the Sudan Conflict Observatory, which is backed by the US.
In addition, it stated that regardless of whether a target had been designated as a valid military target, the Sudanese Armed Forces “would still be required to ensure that civilian harm is minimized.”
