The paramilitary attack of the drone against the mosque in Sudan kills at least 70 people, says the army

A drone attack attributed to the paramilitary group of Sudan Rapid Support Forces struck a mosque during the prayers on Friday, killing at least 70 worshipers in the Northern Darfur region, the humanitarian workers and the Sudanese army said.

The besieged city strike of El Fasher has completely destroyed the mosque, and the number of deaths will probably increase because the bodies are still buried in the rubble, said a worker of the emergency intervention rooms of the local aid group. The worker spoke under the cover of anonymity for fear of reprisals by the RSF.

The Army of Sudan, which has been fighting against the RSF for the climbing of violence since April 2023, said in a statement that it was crying at least 70 victims in the attack.

“The targeting of civilians is unfairly is the motto of this rebellious militia, and it continues to do so at the sight of the whole world,” the statement said.

More details on the attack have been difficult to obtain because this has occurred in an area where many international organizations have retired due to security risks.

The fight between the two parties broke out in a civil war which killed at least 40,000 people, according to the World Health Organization, moved to 12 million others and pushed a lot to the edge of the famine.

The resistance committees of El Fasher, a group of local activists who follow abuses, published a video on Friday showing parts of the mosque reduced in rubble with several dispersed bodies. The Associated Press could not independently check the images.

The organization of support for the victims of Darfur, which monitors the abuses against civilians, said that the attack had taken place in a mosque on rue Daraga al -illa around 5 a.m., citing witnesses.

Last in a series of attacks in El Fasher

The Drone Strike was the last in a series of attacks in last week during heavy clashes between the two parties to El Fasher.

The satellite imagery published Friday by the humanitarian Research Lab of the University of Yale showed signs of drone activity and the impact of explosions in the region of El Fasher earlier in the week.

The images have shown damage to several structures in the Abu Shouk refugee camp struck by the famine, located outside El Fasher, the camp is home to 450,000 people inappropriately and was attacked several times throughout the war.

“El Fasher falls to the RSF forces”, which now controls the Abu Shouk camp and invaded the local operational seat of the army, said the group based in Yale.

The El Fasher Resistance Committee said in a statement Thursday that the RSF had targeted several unarmed civilians, including women and the elderly, in city travel shelters.

Sudan Doctors Network on Tuesday said that the RSF killed 18 people and kidnapped 14 others, including three girls, in El Fasher in what she said was an increase in kidnappings.

Thousands in the region are dead: the UN

A Friday report from the United Nations High Commissioner Office of High Commissioner (OHCHR) recorded the death of at least 3,384 civilians in Sudan, mainly in Darfur, between January and June, almost 80% of the number of civilian victims recorded in 2024. The real toll of death is probably considerably higher.

At the beginning of April, the fighting in El Fasher about the control of the city and the surroundings of the north of the Darfur were intensified.

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More than 400 civilians have been killed in RSF attacks in the region since April 10. The majority was killed in a major offensive that seized the Zamzam travel camp nearby. The camp was transformed into an RSF military base used to launch assault on El Fasher, according to the report.

The RSF offensives have left many injured and involved in sexual violence, summary executions of residents and humanitarian workers and attacks against civilians hiding in improvised bombs or trying to flee, according to the OHCHR.

Residents under El Fasher Siege lack health care

Health care is largely innovative under the headquarters of El Fasher, said Dr. Ezzdin Asow by El Fasher South Hospital, in a vocal recording published by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

He said patients were brought to foot or by donkey trolleys, while medical workers continue to save lives despite the risks. The El Fasher South hospital is the only work hospital offering surgery in the city.

The representative of the United Nations Human Rights Office for Sudan, Li Fung, during a UN briefing in Geneva, warned that the situation in El Fasher “continues to deteriorate quickly” because the current seat causes serious shortages of food, water and medicine.

“The reality on the ground in El Fasher is horrible,” said Fung. “We continue to receive relations of civilians killed, removed or subject to sexual violence while trying to leave El Fasher.”

“There are no safe outings outside the city, and civilians are trapped in a situation of impossible choice – either stay in El Fasher and risks bombing, famine and atrocities if the RSF has invaded the city, or flee and risks the risk of summary execution, sexual violence and abduction.”