KHARTOUM, March 26 (Xinhua) -- At least 28 people were killed and 29 others injured in two drone attacks targeting two cities in central and western Sudan on Wednesday, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses on Thursday.
Local sources said a drone struck a main market in the town of Saraf Omra in North Darfur State early Wednesday morning, along with two other locations, killing 22 people and injuring 17 others.
In a statement on Wednesday, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) accused the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) of carrying out the airstrike, which it said was part of "systematic shelling operations against civilians."
The SAF has not commented on the accusations.
In a separate incident in the city of Al-Rahad in North Kordofan State, eyewitnesses reported that six people were killed and 12 others injured in a drone strike targeting a civilian passenger vehicle that was heading to the city of Um Rawaba.
According to UN statistics released Tuesday, more than 500 civilians had been killed in drone strikes in Sudan as of March 15, most of them in the Kordofan region. The UN has warned that the growing use of such weapons is exacerbating civilian casualties.
The SAF and RSF have been at war since April 2023. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions inside Sudan and across the region. ■
