ALBAWABA - According to local Sudanese medical reports, at least 40 people were killed in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on a village in central Sudan.
40 people were killed "by gunshot wounds" in a paramilitary attack on the Sudanese village of Wad Oshaib in the central state of Al Gezira on Wednesday.
Eyewitnesses in the village told AFP the Rapid Support Forces, at war with the army since April 2023, attacked the village on Tuesday evening.
"The attack resumed this morning," one eyewitness said by phone Wednesday, adding that paramilitary fighters were "looting property".
In a post on Facebook, the Sudan Doctors Network reported that scores of RSF fighters launched a separate attack on the Shakiri village in White Nile State, killing 6 people and injuring 7 others.
The network warned that the continuous attacks would catastrophize the already dire situation as the Rapid Support Forces continue to carry out acts of killing and displacement in both the Gezira and White Nile states.
"The network calls on international and regional organizations to take decisive actions to halt the killings perpetrated by the Rapid Support Forces against unarmed civilians. It also urges the opening of urgent humanitarian corridors to areas under siege in the Gezira, White Nile, and Darfur's El Fasher" the Facebook post reads.
