The BBC has verified videos of fighting and spoken to fleeing residents to map the violence in Sudan's capital.
Life in Sudan's capital Khartoum has been turned on its head.
One of them, Dallia Mohamed Abdelmoniem, said the "empty frightened streets" made Khartoum feel like a ghost town, with people "huddled in their houses not knowing what's going to happen next".The BBC has verified videos from Sudan by checking details such as local weather patterns and the positions of visible landmarks including roads, roofs and rivers.
Monzir Bashir, a journalist based in Khartoum North, told the BBC he could hear explosions "from all directions" and that he had seen at least four people shot "near the well we bring water from" on Wednesday. Many people in Khartoum - including the large number fasting during Ramadan - have been forced to brave the fighting to collect water from the White Nile River.
On Thursday, Médecins Sans Frontières told the BBC that of the city's three major hospitals, Bahari Technical Hospital had closed after shelling and the other two - Umdurman Technical Hospital and Khartoum Technical Hospital - were "barely functional" as doctors couldn't reach them. "It's completely impacted my ability to provide care. I haven't been able to reach a hospital for the past two days because of the fighting."in southern Khartoum, shown on the map. Her hospital was suffering from shortages of everything from power to blood supplies after two emergency caesarean sections consumed reserves, she said."I've been receiving many calls and WhatsApp messages from day one of the fighting.
At Al-Souq Al-Sha'by bus station in Omdurman - which adjoins Khartoum to the north-west - civilians were searching for transport to northern Sudan.
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