More than 100 people have been killed and hundreds injured in an army airstrike on a market in a town in North Darfur, western Sudan, a non-governmental organization (NGO) said today.
"The airstrike took place on the day of the town's weekly market [Monday], when residents of several neighboring villages had gathered to do their shopping, killing more than 100 people and injuring hundreds of others, including women and children," said today Emergency Lawyers, an organization that documents the atrocities committed in the 20 months since the start of the war in Sudan between the armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
According to the French news agency, La France-Presse (AFP), the attack took place in Kabkabiya, about 180 kilometers west of El-Facher, the capital of North Darfur state, which has been besieged by the RSF since May.
In addition, an unidentified drone that crashed in North Kordofan on November 26, in central Sudan, exploded on Monday night, killing six people, including children, and injuring three others, according to the same source.
In Nyala, the capital of South Darfur and Sudan's second most populous city, "indiscriminate airstrikes" were carried out with barrel bombs in three neighborhoods, it added.
The attacks are part of "a continuing campaign of escalation, contradicting claims that the airstrikes are aimed only at military targets, with the raids deliberately focusing on densely populated residential areas," the lawyers said in the statement cited by the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
The army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, has been accused of deliberately targeting civilians and indiscriminately shelling residential areas since the conflict with the RSF began in April 2023.
According to the UN, the war has caused tens of thousands of deaths, displaced more than 11 million people and caused one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history.
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