Khartoum: Rhino – The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said on Sunday that the preliminary toll of the victims of the army’s air strikes on the Libya market west of Omdurman and the Station 13 market in East Nile locality in Khartoum amounted to 650 dead and wounded civilians.
The RSF condemned the incident in a statement on Sunday, adding: “Yesterday and today, the invading aircraft supporting the Burhan militia and terrorist brigades continued its systematic bombing operations against civilians, deliberately killing innocent people and destroying infrastructure, as it launched yesterday evening ”Sunday” The frenzied raids on the historic Libya market west of Omdurman, and the 13th market in East Nile, and 650 people were killed and injured in horrible massacres as a result of the iniquitous targeting.
The statement reads: “The death toll of hundreds of people today, including children and women whose bodies were charred as a result of the barbaric bombing of the Libya market, with all the masks and claims of the so-called ‘armed forces’ have fallen, and the repeated crimes against innocent people are revealed to the world and the human conscience, our people are facing terrorists who have hijacked the power of the army as a tool for total genocide crimes against the Sudanese people, and agents who opened the door to foreign parties that entered the war to implement their own agenda to destroy vital facilities and strike the infrastructure of the state.
The statement continued: “The treacherous aggression comes in light of the systematic targeting of citizens’ gatherings and markets in (Nyala, Al Goma, Saraf Omra, Al Daein, Al Geneina, Al Jazeera, Sennar, and Khartoum), which resulted in thousands of innocent deaths and injuries, and caused widespread destruction of vital facilities in the country. The blatant aggression remains a desperate act that elements of the Islamic terrorist movement resort to in order to compensate for their failures and defeats.
The RSF concluded its statement by saying: “We assure the Sudanese people that our forces are moving steadily and confidently on the battlefields, until a situation befitting our country and preserving the rights of our people in re-establishing the Sudanese state on new and just foundations, and an army that is not politicized or dependent on any party and whose loyalty is first and foremost to the country.
