02-Jul-2024 10:21 AM
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Khartoum, July 2 (Reporter) At least 9 children were killed and 11 others injured in an air raid by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, the North Darfur capital in western Sudan, a local resistance committee has announced.
"An RSF drone threw projectiles at the Al-Hijra Mosque in the Al-Tijaniya neighborhood in El-Fasher, killing 9 children and injuring 11 others," the non-government group said in a statement on Monday.
The Sudan Tribune news portal reported that the targeted site contained a voluntary kitchen providing food to the displaced.
The RSF has yet to respond to the report.
Since May 10, fierce clashes have been raging in El Fasher, the latest escalation of the larger conflict between the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces across the country since April 15, 2023.
The deadly clashes have so far claimed 16,650 lives, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in an update last month.
The UN International Organization for Migration estimated in early June that at least 7.3 million people in Sudan are internally displaced in the current conflict...////...