Nyala, September (Darfur24)The emergency room in the city of Nyala, the provincial capital of South Darfur state, said Sudanese army’s air strikes on Wednesday left 40 people dead, including women and children.
A member of the emergency room who preferred his identity to be kept anonymous, said that the bombing led to the killing of 17 people and a number of wounded in the Malja market, north of the city, in addition to 4 people in the airport neighborhood, northeast of the city, and more than 7 dead in the Karari neighborhood, south of the city, and more than 11 dead in various neighbourhoods in the city.
He stated that rescue teams are still searching for survivors under the rubble.
Today, Wednesday, Sudanese army aviation launched air strikes on several sites in the city of Nyala, which is the second time the army has bombed the city of Nyala in two weeks.
Meanwhile, a medical source at the Turkish Nyala Hospital told Darfur 24 that the hospital received – as a result of the bombing – more than 17 wounded people, some of whom were in serious condition requiring urgent surgical intervention.
However, he warned of the difficulty of obtaining “blood thinners” and some anesthetic drugs, describing the situation as tragic and appealing to Doctors Without Borders to intervene. Urgent provision of medical aid.
On its part, the Rapid Support Forces said that the warplane bombing in the city of Nyala resulted in the killing of 40 civilians and the injury of dozens.
The Rapid Support Forces said in a statement seen by Darfur 24 that the air strikes that targeted several locations in the city did not harm a single soldier, and did not target the locations of their forces known to all the people of Nyala – as the statement put it .
While the armed forces didn’t issue clarifications regarding the airstrike operation that targeted several locations in the city of Nyala.