At least 60 people have been killed in an attack on a center for displaced people in El Fasher, a besieged town in Darfur in western Sudan, a local organization said today, giving a new toll of the attack.
According to the Coordination of Resistance Committees, a civilian group that coordinates aid and documents developments in the conflict, members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out two drone attacks and fired eight missiles at the Dar al-Arqam center for displaced people, located at a university, killing 60 people.
The previous report said that 30 people had died.
The bodies remained trapped in underground shelters, the same source said in a statement, calling it a "massacre" in which "children, women and elderly people were killed in cold blood" and a large number of them were completely burned. They expressed regret over the "silence of the world."
El-Fasher is the last major city in the Darfur region not yet under full control of the RSF, which has been at war with the Sudanese army since April 2023.
Since April 2023, a war has been raging in Sudan between the army led by General Abdel Fattah el Burhan, the country's de facto ruler since a 2021 coup, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by his former deputy, General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
Paramilitaries have taken control of numerous sectors of el Fasher in recent weeks, pushing the army from its last strongholds.
After more than a year of siege, the city, where around 400.000 civilians have taken refuge, is missing almost everything.
Civilians say that because of the daily strikes, they have to spend most of their time underground, in small shelters they have dug.
The war in Sudan has killed more than 24.000 people, according to the UN, but activists and human rights groups say the death toll is likely much higher.
The war has also caused one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. Some 13 million people have been driven from their homes, including more than four million who have fled to neighboring countries.
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