A Sudanese network of volunteer rescuers stated on Sunday that the military carried out an air strike on a Khartoum bazaar the day before, killing 23 people.
The market is close to one of the main camps in Sudan’s capital, where the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are fighting the military as part of a civil war that has claimed hundreds of lives.
According to a Facebook post by the youth-led Emergency Response Rooms, “twenty-three people were confirmed dead and more than 40 others wounded” and rushed to hospital following “military air strikes on Saturday afternoon on the main market” in southern Khartoum.
Fierce fighting has raged since Friday around Khartoum, much of which is controlled by the RSF, with the military pounding the centre and south of the city from the air.
The military is advancing towards Khartoum from nearby Omdurman, where clashes erupted on Saturday, eyewitnesses said.
Since April 2023, when war broke out between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the paramilitaries had largely pushed the army out of Khartoum.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says at least 20,000 people have been killed in the civil war.
The war has also created the world’s largest displacement crisis, the UN says.
More than 10 million people, around a fifth of Sudan’s population, have been forced from their homes, according to UN figures.
