Sudanese Army accused of killing hundreds at the Darfur market airport

The Sudanese military monitor has accused the military of killing hundreds of people in an air strike in a market in the Western Darfur in the country.

The Emergency Lawyer Group – which documents abuses from both sides in the Sudan Civil War, which broke out in April 2023 – said the bombing of the tour of the TUR’RA is a “horrifying slaughter”, which also left hundreds of injured.

Videos published on social media – some of the army of the rival of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group that controls much of Darfur – showed the ruins of smoking of market stalls and bodies charged beyond recognition.

A military spokesman has denied a focus on civilians, saying that he is attacking only legitimate hostile goals.

Both Sudanese Armed Forces and RSF have been repeatedly charged with firing civilian areas.

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

The BBC has failed to confirm the death issue or the exact date of the market attack, located about 35 km (21 miles) north of the city of El-Fashire, the army.

An activist group in Darfur – the initiative for justice and peace in Darfur – said it happened on Monday and called it “the most deadly bombing since the beginning of the war.”

Civil death in bombing and firing attacks has intensified in recent months with the escalation of battles in the country’s brutal civil conflict.

About 12 million Sudanese souls have escaped from their homes since the outbreak of war – this is equivalent to the entire population of Belgium or Tunisia.

Hunger has caught and hunger is widespread, the UN says, with over half of the country experiencing “high levels of acute uncertainty of food.”

The forecasts vary, but it is said that at least 150,000 people were killed by the fighting.

RSF has denied proof that performs genocide in Darfur, including the murder of thousands of civiliansAnd rape of women who are not Arab as a means of “ethnic cleansing”.

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

Additional reporting from the BBC Akisa Wandera.