At least 57 people were killed in the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher late Friday when paramilitary forces launched drone and artillery strikes on a shelter for displaced people, local medics and aid groups said.
The paramilitary group, called the Rapid Support Forces, or R.S.F., has for months tightened its siege of El Fasher, a city in the western region of Darfur that has become one of the worst battlegrounds of a two-year civil war between the R.S.F. and Sudan’s military.
About 260,000 civilians are trapped in an ever-smaller space within the city, struggling with hunger, disease and mass displacement.
In addition to the dozens killed at the shelter, around 43 were wounded, according to Suleman, a senior doctor at the nearby Al Saudi hospital, who asked to be identified by one name to protect his family from reprisals. He visited the site of the attack early on Saturday.
Footage from the scene of the shelter, collected by locals and shared by Suleman, showed bloodied bodies, rubble and buildings with caved-in roofs.
The shelter, called the Dar al-Arqam displacement center, is on the grounds of a university campus. It was struck as people were asleep in classrooms that had been converted into temporary shelters, while others were in underground bunkers, Suleman said.
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