SUDAN: ‘Paramilitary shelling kills 5 children’
Shelling from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed five children in the besieged North Darfur state capital of El-Fasher, a medical source told AFP on Thursday. The attack on Wednesday was first reported by the Sudanese army, which has been locked in a war with the RSF since April of 2023. “The militia targeted […]
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Shelling from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed five children in the besieged North Darfur state capital of El-Fasher, a medical source told AFP on Thursday.
The attack on Wednesday was first reported by the Sudanese army, which has been locked in a war with the RSF since April of 2023.
“The militia targeted civilians in the city’s neighbourhoods with artillery shelling, killing five children under the age of six and wounding four women,” the army said in a statement.
Speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, a medical source confirmed the toll.
El-Fasher, under siege by the RSF since last May, is the only one of five state capitals in the vast Darfur region that is not under paramilitary control.