Khartoum (EFE) .- The violent confrontations between the Sudanese Army and the powerful paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (FAR) continue this Monday for the third consecutive day, in combats that have intensified with the air force bombardments in Khartoum and other locations in the country.
As EFE was able to verify, the main clashes took place in the vicinity of the headquarters and command of the Armed Forces and the Presidential Palace, where the residence of the Army leader, General Abdelfatah al Burhan, is located.
Likewise, combat planes flew over the center and east of Khartoum, while witnesses assured EFE that loud explosions were heard near one of the FAR bases in Soba, where the clashes began on Saturday.
The regions of the East of the Nile and North Khartoum, close to the capital, also woke up with the noise of strong explosions, which have raised large columns of smoke.
According to witnesses, in that area the Army has bombed “dozens” of paramilitary armored vehicles, as well as tanker trucks full of fuel that were heading to the capital to resupply the FAR warehouses.
On the other hand, in the town of Omdurman, a neighbor of the capital, witnesses assured that clashes are taking place near the headquarters of the state television and radio station, a building that both belligerent parties have disputed since the first day of the conflict.
a hundred dead
At least 97 civilians have been killed and another 942 wounded in clashes over the weekend between the Sudanese army and the powerful Rapid Support Forces (FAR) paramilitary group.
According to a statement from the Sudanese Central Committee of Doctors, during the second day of fighting in different parts of the country, a total of 41 civilians “were killed”, mainly in the capital, Khartoum, and the towns of Bahri and Omdurman.
On the first day of fighting, on Saturday, at least 56 civilians lost their lives, according to this same source.
Likewise, the committee pointed out that the number of victims could be much higher, since the emergency teams cannot move through different areas of the west of the country due to movement restrictions due to the intense fighting.
The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors also denounced that the uniformed officers are using health facilities as a “refuge”, and recalled that using hospitals for war purposes is “a crime against Humanity, against values and morals, and against the treaties and agreements that prohibit its violation.
Given the escalation of violence in highly populated cities, on Sunday the Army and the FAR accepted a UN proposal to establish humanitarian corridors and cease fighting in residential areas for a brief period of three hours, something that allowed the evacuation of more than a thousand residents in Khartoum, sources from the Sudanese Red Crescent told EFE.