Paramilitary Fighters Massacre More Than 100 Civilians, Doctors’ Group Says

The paramilitary forces killed more than 100 civilians in an attack on a city in southern Sudan on Thursday, according to an association of doctors, in the last Accusation of a large -scale atrocity of the countries civil war.

Communication with people in the city, Nahud, was largely cut from Thursday, and the group’s claim could not be verified independently. Al Hadath, a Saudi news channel, said that 230 civilians had died to the bones, while Al Jazeera reported 19 dead and 37 injured.

The paramilitary fighters, called the fast support forces, said Thursday that they had attacked Nahud, who had been supported by the Sudanese army along a road that connects the territory it has with Darfur, a western region.

At least 542 civilians have been killed in the region in just three weeks, said the UN Human Rights Chief on Thursday, Volker Türk, adding that the real toll is much higher.

“The horror that develops in Sudan knows no limits,” he said in a statement about the war. “My fears are all the elderly given the ominous warning by the” bloodstation “RSF” ahead of the imminent battles. “

The Sudanese army brought the fighters from the rapid support forces of Jardum, the capital of the country, in March, But since then, the paramilitary group has declared its own government in the areas it controls, and pressed a great offensive to seize every Darfur.

The group of doctors, the Doctors of Sudan, said that fast support fighters had carried out a “large -scale massacre” in Nahud on Thursday night, with 21 children and 15 women among the dead. The group said the troops had also looted a medical supply warehouse, markets, pharmacies and a hospital.

Abdallah Almana, a 29 -year -old player out of Sudan, said he had desperately trying to reach his father in Nahud on Friday. “Yesterday, it was possible to reach people,” he said, “but today, everything disappeared.”

He said that he had heard of people to break into houses and loot vehicles, and that he had a cousin, who worked as a driver in the market, killed by a “random bullet.”

The videos that circulate on social networks seemed to show at least a prominent commander of the rapid security forces that lead attacks in the city.

The assault “stripped the city of their latest medical means and stopped medical services for many patients and injured people who trust them,” said the group on social networks.

The toll did not include military personnel, and it would probably rise, the group added.

The Sudan War Monitor, a group of journalists and researchers who track the Civil War, is now his third year, said that the Sudanese army had lost the city on Thursday, leaving it without a key center to push fast forces.

A Sudanese military spokesman, Nabil Abdallah, denied that Nahud had fallen to the rapid support forces and said the military still controlled the city, according to the war monitor.

Thursday’s attack occurred when the rapid support forces pressed their long siege on the Pasher, the last important city of Darfur that does not control, and when the Sudanese army and the fast support forces face accusations of atrocities.

Last month, the help groups and the United Nations said that the fast support combatants killed all the staff of a medical clinic in a camp affected by hunger in Darfur, killing hundreds and forcing up to 400,000 others to flee from the camp.

Despite the rapid withdrawal of the capital’s support forces and the impulse of officials such as Mr. Türk, the UN, and others, many diplomats and humanitarian workers believe that the end of wars is far from the view.

The war began as an alliance between the military and rapid support forces that collapsed in 2023. The declaration of the paramilitary group of a parallel government, in the western and southern regions that controls, has elevated the nation of long termets of the long periods of the lines of the lines of the lines of the lines of the lines since 2011.