El Fasher, March 19(Darfur24) Awatif Ibrahim Omar, 31 years old, was seriously injured in the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, following renewed aerial bombardment on the city by army warplanes for the second time within hours.
The army wove a strong network of cooperation with the armed movements in El Fasher in order to defend it in light of the Rapid Support’s attempts to control it to tighten its grip on the Darfur region.
A medical source at Al-Koma Rural Hospital, northeast of Al-Fasher, told Darfur 24 that the hospital received a girl from the Al-Jabal neighborhood in Al-Fasher city who needed surgical intervention after she was injured by shrapnel from explosive barrels.
He pointed out that the number of civilian casualties due to warplane bombing who were taken to Al-Koma Hospital rose to 4 dead and 14 wounded, including women and children.
Today, Monday, an Antonov plane belonging to the Sudanese army flew over the airspace of the city of El Fasher for more than half an hour, during which it launched more than 4 explosive barrels targeting the northeastern neighborhoods under the control of the Rapid Support Forces.
The Rapid Support Forces fired heavy anti-aircraft guns, with strong earthquakes caused by aircraft shells.
Eyewitnesses told “Darfur 24” that the aircraft targeted the positions of the Rapid Support Forces in the relevant neighborhoods, and also caused the destruction of a large number of homes in parts of the neighborhoods of “Dim Silk, Al-Mahadad, Al-Usra, Al-Jabal, Al-Mina Al-Bari, and Al-Borsa.”
Today’s raid on the city of El Fasher is the third this March, the sixth this year, and the ninth since the beginning of the fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces in April last year.
A medical source, who preferred to withhold his identity, revealed to Darfur 24 that 45 people had been killed and 80 other civilians wounded since the start of the aerial bombardment last year inside the city of El Fasher.
He said that the wounded were transported to the localities of Umm Kadada, Melit, and Malha due to the difficulty of transporting them to the Southern Hospital, expecting the death toll to rise due to the intense bombing by aircraft in the recent period.
The head of the Entrepreneurial Youth Committee in Al-Koma locality, Saleh Obaid Haririn, revealed to Darfur 24 that thousands of displaced people had fled from El-Fasher to Al-Koma due to battles between the army and the Rapid Support Forces and aerial bombardment, and he confirmed the arrival of a number of them on Monday.
He pointed out that the displaced are living in tragic conditions in more than 30 shelter centers, housing 18,000 displaced people, due to the lack of water, sanitation, food, and medicine services.
He added: “We are working to collect donations to provide water, food, psychological and social support, inventory and register the displaced, and coordination with government agencies.”
Residents evacuated their homes in the eastern neighborhoods and moved to localities and shelter centers inside the city of El Fasher and the Zamzam camp for the displaced, for fear of being exposed to aerial bombardment.