Sudan Army accused of killing hundreds in the air attack in the Darfur market

A Sudanese war monitor accused the army of killing hundreds of people in an air strike in a market in the western region of Darfur in the country.

The group of emergency lawyers, which documented the abuses of both parties in the Civil War of Sudan that exploded in April 2023, said that the bombardment of the Tur’rah market was a “horrible massacre” that had also left hundreds of injured.

The videos published on social networks, some by the army rival, The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group that controls much of Darfur, showed the smoking ruins of the positions and bodies of the carbonized market beyond recognition.

A military spokesman denied attacking civilians, saying that he only attacked legitimate hostile objectives.

Both Sudanese armed forces and the RSF have been repeatedly accused of bombing civil areas.

The RSF has deployed drones in Darfur, but the army has combat aircraft, and regularly attacks RSF positions throughout the region.

The BBC has not been able to confirm the death toll or the exact date of the market attack, which is about 35 km (21 miles) north of the city of El-Fafasher, controlled by the army.

A Darfur activist group, the Darfur initiative for Justice and Peace, said it happened on Monday and called it the “most fatal bombing since the beginning of the war.”

Civil deaths in bombing and bombing attacks have intensified in recent months with the escalation of the fight in the brutal civil conflict of the country.

Some 12 million Sudanese people have fled their homes since the war broke out, which is equivalent to the entire population of Belgium or Tunisia.

The famine has taken over and hunger is widespread, says the UN, with more than half of the country experiencing “high levels of acute food insecurity.”

The estimates vary, but it is said that at least 150,000 people have been killed by the fight.

The RSF has denied the evidence that he is committing a genocide in Darfur, including the murder of thousands of civiliansand the violation of non -Arab women as a means of “ethnic cleaning.”

According to the UN, Sudan is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

ADDITIONAL REPORTS OF AKISA WANDERA OF THE BBC.