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At least 10 people were wounded in the strike in the village of
Shukeiri in the White Nile province, according to Dr. Musa al-Majeri,
director of the Douiem Hospital, the nearest major medical
facility to the village.
Al-Majeri told The Associated Press three girls suffered serious
injuries; two of them underwent surgeries at the hospital while
the third was evacuated to the capital, Khartoum.
The war-tracking Sudan Doctors Network reported the strike
first, saying those killed included two teachers and a health
care worker. The group said there was no military presence in
the village.
Both the medical group and al-Majeri blamed the paramilitary
Rapid Support Forces for the strike. The RSF didn’t respond to a
request for comment.
“This horrific crime represents a continuation of the violations
committed by the RSF in the White Nile,” said Dr. Razan Al-Mahdi,
a spokeswoman for the medical group, adding that the
paramilitaries attacked several civilian facilities in the past
two days, including a student dormitory and a power station.
The strike in the village of Shukeiri in the White Nile province
was the latest deadly attack in Sudan’s nearly three-year war.
Sudan slid into chaos in April 2023 when a power struggle
between the military and the RSF exploded into open fighting in
Khartoum and elsewhere in the country.
The devastating war has killed more than 40,000 people,
according to U.N. figures, but aid groups say that is an
undercount and the true number could be many times higher.
The fighting has centered in the sprawling Kordofan region,
where deadly attacks, mostly by drones, were reported daily.
The war has been marked by atrocities including mass killings,
gang rapes and other crimes, investigated by the International
Criminal Court as potential war crimes and crimes against
humanity.
The most recent atrocities happened in October when the RSF and
its Janjweed allies overran the Darfur city of el-Fasher. The
RSF attack there bore “ hallmarks of genocide,” according to
United Nations-commissioned experts.
At least 6,000 people were killed in three days in October in
el-Fasher, the U.N.’s Human Rights Office said.
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