At least 7 people killed in RSF drone strikes in Sudan

ISTANBUL

At least seven people were killed Tuesday in drone strikes carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan, local authorities and medics said.

The local administration in the northern city of Al-Dabbah said five people were killed and several others injured when an RSF drone struck college buildings in the city.

Mohamed Saber Kashkash, the head of the city’s security committee, accused the RSF of continuing to “target civilian facilities,” describing the rebel group as a “terrorist militia.”

A doctor and his son were also killed in another drone attack in East Nile State, east of Khartoum, the Sudan Shields Forces, an army-aligned group, said in a statement.

The attack came hours after the Sudan Doctors Network, a local medical group, accused the RSF of killing another doctor and injuring his two sons in a drone strike on their home in the Sharg En Nile district in Khartoum.

The new fatalities brought the number of medical personnel killed in attacks by the rebel group since the outbreak of Sudan’s war in April 2023 to 233, according to the network’s data.

The group called on the international community and human rights organizations to hold the RSF accountable for its ongoing “crimes” against civilians in Sudan.

Fighting between Sudan’s army and the RSF since April 2023 has killed more than 20,000 people and displaced about 15 million, according to the UN and local authorities, while a study by US universities estimates the death toll at around 130,000.