According to a statement from the local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), the attack took place on Thursday night, when "the RSF shelled the village of Al Shaykh al Samani in the state of Sinar with heavy artillery."
"The projectiles fell on the heads of defenseless citizens in their homes, killing 24 people and injuring dozens of others, most of them children and women", the note states.
The Resistance Committee also said that in the village "there are no army soldiers or police, but rather a large number of displaced people who came to the village from the city of Wad Madani", the capital of the neighboring state of Al-Jazira, which the paramilitaries seized last December.
The attack occurred about ten days after local NGOs and the Sudanese army reported the death of 180 civilians in an RSF attack on the village of Wad al Nura, in the central state of Al-Jazira.
According to information from this local NGO, paramilitaries have committed a series of "massacres" in Al-Jazira since taking control of several villages in December, as well as the state capital, Wad Madani, which until then had been a safe haven for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by war.
Both the Sudanese army and paramilitaries have been accused by numerous international organizations of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, including sexual violence and ethnic cleansing, which has led to sanctions by countries such as the United States against both warring parties.
The army and the RSF have been involved in an open war since April 15, 2023, which has killed at least 30,000 people, according to the Sudanese Doctors' Union, and caused the internal and external displacement of more than 10 million people.
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