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29 people were killed in an air strike on a gas station south of Khartoum news


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29 civilians were killed on Sunday as a result of an air strike targeting a gas station in an area located south of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and under the control of the Rapid Support Forces.

According to activists who spoke to the German News Agency, the attack carried out by a drone on a crowded market where the gas station was also located, resulted in the injury of dozens of people.

Eyewitnesses also reported that the bombing led to violent explosions and fires in many locations.

According to the German News Agency, the area south of Khartoum, especially the Mayo and Al-Azhari neighborhoods, is one of the sites controlled by the Rapid Support Forces, and it contains the famous Mayo Market for selling stolen goods that are seized by the Rapid Support Forces and thieves from homes whose residents have abandoned them.

No party has claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes as part of a bloody conflict that Sudan has been witnessing between the army and the Rapid Support Forces since mid-April 2023, resulting in the deaths of more than 27,120 people and the displacement of about 14 million people inside and outside Sudan, according to estimates by international organizations. .

Khartoum, Sinjah and Darfur

According to Agence France-Presse, army forces led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan are making progress towards Khartoum, in an effort to regain control of the capital from the Rapid Support Forces led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as “Hemedti.”

The Rapid Support Forces took control of Khartoum at the beginning of the war, and the government was forced to take an alternative headquarters in the city of Port Sudan, located on the Red Sea.

The same agency notes that the Sudanese army recently regained control of Sinja, the capital of Sennar State, located south of Khartoum, which remained under the control of the Rapid Support for five months, describing this as a “strategic achievement,” due to the city’s location on a main axis linking areas it controls. In eastern and central Sudan.

The Rapid Support Forces control large territories in the Darfur region in the west of the country.


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