{"id":20097228,"date":"2024-08-18T13:01:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T11:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/?p=20097228"},"modified":"2024-08-21T09:12:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T07:12:27","slug":"sudan-war-dozens-killed-in-attacks-on-residential-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-war-dozens-killed-in-attacks-on-residential-areas","title":{"rendered":"Sudan war: dozens killed in attacks on residential areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nearly 30 people, among them many children, were killed in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on villages in Sennar and El Gezira on Friday. The regional bus station in Wad Madani, capital of El Gezira, was torched. In rural Khartoum Bahri (Khartoum North<\/strong>), at least nine people died in air raids by the Sudanese Air Force.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least six people were killed, and dozens were injured, when RSF paramilitaries raided the village of Beida, in the western part of Ed Dinder, Sennar, on Friday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nidaa El Wasat organisation in El Gezira reported on its Facebook page<\/a> yesterday that the entire population was ordered to leave at gunpoint after which their homes were plundered. People living in the vicinity of the villages also fled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hillet Bir Wad Agrab in eastern Ed Dinder also witnessed attacks by RSF \u201cmilitia gangs\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In El Jadeed El Sawra in El Gezira, which is under control of the RSF since December last year<\/a>, RSF elements stormed the house of Suheib and Nizar Bataran, shot them dead, and left with the brothers\u2019 car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nidaa El Wasat also reported that the RSF stormed the villages of Wad Zalam and El Faki Hamid, forcing the residents to flee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sudanese Doctors Network condemned the attacks and \u201cthe state of chaos practiced by the RSF in the areas under its control\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The resistance committees of Abu Gouta<\/a> in northwest El Gezira reported that more than 20 people were killed, most of them children, and many others were wounded, in an RSF attack on El Majma Goz El Naga village on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attackers prevented the villagers from leaving or entering the village, taking the bodies of their dead relatives, and treating the wounded, the Abu Gouta grassroots committees stated. For this reason, it is not certain how many people died, but \u201cthe number exceeded 20\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abu Gouta town was attacked and plundered<\/a> by RSF soldiers In December last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bus station<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Mutamar El Gezira, RSF troops set fire to the regional bus station in Wad Madani on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement obtained by Radio Dabanga, Mutamar El Gezira says it considers \u201cthis incident\u201d as \u201cpart of a systematic campaign aimed at destroying the state\u2019s economic capabilities and making it an uninhabitable place\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radio Dabanga last week reported the death of three people<\/a> in RSF raids on their homes in El Gezira. On August 1, RSF paramilitaries killed 23 villagers<\/a> in El Managil. Two months ago, more than 100 people<\/a> were killed by the RSF in El Gezira\u2019s Wad El Noura village on one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Airstrikes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resistance committees in the countryside of Khartoum North reported yesterday that the Sudanese Air Force bombed the El Fazarab neighbourhood in the area of El Obeid and El Duhum area for the second time since the beginning of the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF in mid-April last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nine people, among them members of one family, were killed. A tenth person went missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe warplanes are bombing the homes of unarmed civilians forced to endure the worst types of living, between the harassment of the terrorist Janjaweed [RSF] militia and the high cost of living and the difficulty of obtaining food,\u201d the resistance committees said on their Facebook page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey endure all of this in silence without assistance from any party. This bombing resulted in the martyrdom of nine individuals, most of whom were children, the injury of four others, and the destruction of several homes.\u201d<\/p>\n