Air strikes kill 22 civilians including women, children as Sudan war intensifies
A Sudanese army air strike on the capital has killed at least 22 people and injured many others, eyewitnesses and an official have said.
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Women and children were among the victims, the eyewitnesses told the BBC.
The airstrike hit the Dar es Salaam district of Omdurman, on the opposite bank of the Nile to the capital Khartoum, early on Saturday.
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The army and a paramilitary force have been battling for control of the capital since April.
The conflict began after the head of the army, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the head of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, fell out over the future of the country.
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A Khartoum state health official, quoted by Reuters news agency, said at least 22 people had been killed in Saturday’s airstrike, while the RSF said the death toll was 31.
The paramilitary group added in a statement that the strike had “caused significant destruction to homes”.
The UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said he was “appalled” by the violence and concerned that the conflict would become full-scale civil war, “potentially destabilising the entire region”. He called on both sides to cease fighting and protect civilians.
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