65 killed, 133 wounded in Sudan’s fresh clashes

KABUL (Pajhwok): At least 65 people have been killed and 133 others wounded as a result of fresh clashes between the army and paramilitary forces in Sudan, a media report said on Tuesday.

Forty people lost their lives and 70 others were injured in a missile attack on the Kordofan region in southern Sudan, AFP reported, citing two medical sources.

It said an airstrike by the Sudanese army on the Darfur region in western Sudan killed 25 people and wounded 63 others.

The report added the attack targeted an area under the control of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), but it did not clarify whether the casualties were civilians or militia fighters.

After months of wrangling over the political fate of the Rapid Support Force (RSF) personnel and their integration into the national army, fighting has been ongoing between Sudanese military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who leads the RSF, since April 15, 2023.

The clashes have lately intensified. Earlier in the week, 56 people had been killed and 158 others wounded in air raids and missile strikes in the Sudanese capital city of Khartoum.

So far, tens of thousands of people have been killed in the fighting in Sudan while over 12 million others have been forced into displacement.

It is estimated that 150,000 people have been killed in the war. A UN report says over 12 million Sudanese people have been displaced and two million others have fled the country.

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