An airstrike on a city in western Sudan killed and injured several civilians

Mondo Military Updated on 2024-02-21

According to the "Sudan Tribune" local time 20**, the city of Duyin, the capital of East Darfur State in western Sudan, was hit by airstrikes on the same day, including residential areas, industrial areas and some villages in the western suburbs of the city. At least five civilians were killed as a result of the airstrike, the report said.

Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) issued a statement on the same day, accusing the Sudanese Armed Forces of airstrikes on residential areas in Duain city, killing 11 civilians, including children and women, injuring dozens of others and destroying hundreds of houses. A local hospital, two water stations and a camp for displaced people were also damaged in the airstrikes, the statement added. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) responded that its warplanes had struck a Rapid Support Forces (RSF) military target in the city of Du'ain.

On 15 April 2023, armed clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) broke out in the capital, Khartoum, and subsequently spread to other areas and continue to this day. In November of the same year, the city of Duyin, the capital of Eastern Darfur, was taken under the control of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces withdrew from the city.

**: CCTV news client

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