Just two days after the Sudanese army recaptured a civilian Lod in Jazira state in central Sudan, fighting raged to areas and cities in greater Khartoum between the army and the Rapid Support forces, and Sudanese medics reported that more than 120 civilians were killed and large numbers of injuries have not yet been accounted for, as a result of shelling targeting an area in Omdurman, located within Greater Khartoum.
According to a statement by the”ambada emergency room”, which is part of a network of rescue volunteers throughout Sudan, that the “indiscriminate shelling on the Dar es Salaam area”, led to the death of 120 civilians as an initial count, and did not specify who was behind the bombing.
Significant shortage of medical supplies
The statement also stated that there is “a significant shortage of medical supplies related to first aid drugs, with a large number of injured people of varying degrees of injury”.
Medics in Omdurman reported on Sunday an acute health care crisis, an outbreak of malaria and diarrhea since last August, in addition to malnutrition that has brought several areas to the brink of famine, in the absence of relief aid access.
Since the outbreak of the war in Sudan between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support forces led by his former deputy Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, both sides of the conflict have been accused of targeting civilians, including health workers, as well as targeting residential areas, hospitals and infrastructure with indiscriminate shelling.
Repeated and indiscriminate shelling
Electricity was cut off in Port Sudan, the seat of the Sudanese government, after a hydroelectric dam was targeted in the north of the country, and the army accused that the attack was carried out by the Rapid Support forces.
Residents on both banks of the Nile between Omdurman and the capital often report shelling across the river, with bombs and shrapnel hitting homes and civilians repeatedly and indiscriminately.
The fighting between the army and the Rapid Support forces led to the death of tens of thousands and the displacement of more than 12 million Sudanese, what the United Nations described as the largest displacement crisis in the world, and a major humanitarian crisis, and warned of the catastrophic humanitarian situation and the need of more than 30 million Sudanese, more than half of whom are children, for urgent relief assistance.
