Sudan crisis: New 72-hour truce rocked by air strikes, tank fire
capital of Khartoum on Friday and a heavy bombardment pounded the adjacent city of Bahri, witnesses said, even though the army and a rival paramilitary force agreed to extend a truce by 72 hours.
In persisting ceasefire violations that the United States called worrying, heavy gunfire and detonations rattled residential neighborhoods of the capital region where fighting has been concentrated over the past week.Thick smoke was rising above two areas of Bahri.“The situation this morning is very scary. We hear the sounds of planes and explosions. We don’t know when this hell will end,” said Bahri resident Mahasin al-Awad, 65. “We’re in a constant state of fear for ourselves and our children.
In a statement, the RSF accused the army of violating a U.S.- and Saudi-brokered truce pact by carrying out air strikes on its bases in Omdurman, Khartoum’s sister city at the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers, and Mount Awliya.A Turkish evacuation plane came under fire as it was landing at Wadi Seyidna airport in Omdurman on Friday but there were no injuries, Turkey’s defense ministry said.
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