Sudan: New Artillery Attack Against A Market Leaves At Least 15 Dead

Damages left by the clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF, Sept 2024 Photo: @SudanTribune_EN

September 23, 2024 Hour: 4:17 pm

At least 15 civilians were killed and 61 others wounded on Monday in an artillery attack by the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against a crowded market in Omdurman, a neighboring city of Khartoum, local authorities reported.

The spokesman for the Department of Health for the state of Khartoum, Mohamed Ibrahim, said in a statement that “15 civilians, including children and women, were killed and 61 wounded in the FAR militia artillery attack on Sabrin market, north of Omdurman, on Monday.” The Israeli army has been fighting for a long time.

In addition to this attack, Ibrahim indicated that the FAR also shelled neighborhoods adjacent to the market and the administrative building at the Al Manara water station, locations where “dead and wounded, who have not yet arrived at hospitals so that they are not yet included in the count”.

Witnesses told EFE that army and police forces closed the Saberin market, where significant commercial activity had continued despite the attack.

Omdurman, Sudan — At least 15 civilians were killed and 61 others wounded on Monday when shells fired by the Rapid Support Forces, a powerful paramilitary group, struck a crowded market in this city across the Nile River from the capital, Khartoum, according to health officials.… pic.twitter.com/aA4VJzqZ6T
— Sudan Tribune (@SudanTribune_EN) September 23, 2024

The FAR have been active in Khartoum North for the past two days, during which they also attacked the suburb of Al Zawra in northern Omdurman, all from concentration positions of militia troops in the west of the city.

Witnesses explained that the Sudanese Army’s air force responded with aerial bombardments against FAR positions in the Halfaia neighbourhood, also in northern Khartoum.

Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, and Omdurman, the country’s most populous city, are part of an urban conurbation that stretches on both sides of the Nile River.

Both sides in the Sudan conflict often exchange artillery attacks, each from their own position: the army from north Omdurman and the FAR from areas under its control in Khartoum North.

Yesterday, a surge in violence between the Sudanese Army and the FAR in the city of Al Fasher, capital of North Darfur state, caused at least 21 dead.