Wad Madani, Sudan - Air strikes killed at least 46 people and injured dozens Sunday at a Khartoum market, local
Wad Madani, Sudan – Air strikes killed at least 46 people and injured dozens Sunday at a Khartoum market, local activists said, one of the deadliest single attacks in Sudan’s nearly five months of war.
In its statement, the committee revised an earlier toll of 30 killed. It added there were “dozens wounded” and said casualties continued to pour into the nearby Bashair hospital.The hospital had issued an “urgent appeal” for all medical professionals in the area to come and help treat the “increasing number of injured people arriving”.
The army has been accused of repeated indiscriminate shelling of the residential areas where the paramilitaries have embedded themselves, including by evicting families and taking over homes. In addition to the capital, fighting has been mainly been concentrated in the western region of Darfur.