At least 16 civilians have reportedly been killed in an exchange of rocket fire between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the war-torn Darfur region, which has seen some of the worst violence since fighting began in mid-April.
On Saturday, a local lawyers’ union said it happened in the city of Nyala, the capital of the state of South Darfur.
The Darfur Bar Association said that the fighting led to the killing of 16 civilians, including an entire family, which lost all of its members with the exception of one, who sustained injuries.
There were also reports of snipers targeting people in West Darfur, including its capital of el-Geneina, near Chad, and tens of thousands of residents have fled across the border.
At least one man was killed by a sniper, the Darfur Bar Association added.
“Thousands of people continue to flee from the region of West Darfur and try to make it to the border into neighbouring Chad. That’s in West Darfur where we’ve seen a high increase in violence with refugees who arrived in Chad, saying that they’ve been targeted by militias allied with the RSF based on their ethnicities,” said Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan, reporting from Khartoum.
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