More than 20 people were killed Sunday after shells hit a market in a suburb of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, a committee of pro-democracy lawyers said in a statement.
Pro-democracy lawyers said the shells hit the market in Omdurman during an intense exchange of fire between the two sides.The committee keeps track of rights violations during the conflict and its civilian victims.
Omdurman has repeatedly been the site of fierce battles since April when fighting broke out between the forces of army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the Rapid Support Forces .More than 10,000 people have been killed in the Sudan conflict so far, according to a conservative estimate by the
But aid groups and medics have repeatedly warned the real toll exceeds recorded figures, with many of those wounded and killed never reaching hospitals or morgues.There was a problem processing your submission. Please try again later.
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