Shelling has killed five entire families in Sudan’s battle-scarred Darfur region as the country’s army chief made his first trip abroad since the outbreak of war in April.
The sources said the attack occurred in Nyala, the capital of Darfur South state, from which 50,000 people have been forced to flee since August 11, according to the United Nations.
Medics and witnesses told AFP news agency that 39 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed on on August 22 by the shelling in the city of Nyala, in Sudan’s South Darfur state, where fighting between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has intensified.
The victims, including all members of five families, were killed in just one day, Gouja Ahmed, a human rights activist originally from Nyala, told CBS News on Monday, adding that some other families in the area had lost three quarters of their members.
Images posted online by Ahmed show dozens of bodies on the ground covered in shrouds, as well as men placing the dead in a large grave.