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By Adel Abdelrheem and Rania Abushamala
KHARTOUM, Sudan/ ISTANBUL (AA) - Ten civilians were killed and nine others wounded in a drone attack carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the city of Sinja, the capital of Sennar State in southeastern Sudan, the Sudan Doctors Network said Monday.
In a statement, the independent medical network said that “ten people were killed by a guided missile fired from a Rapid Support Forces drone at several locations in Sinja.”
It added that nine others also sustained injuries of varying severity and condemned what it described as a the “deliberate targeting of civilians outside military objectives, amounting to full-fledged war crimes.”
The network called ng for an end to the targeting of civilians and for ensuring the protection of civilian facilities.
It also appealed to the international community, the UN, and human rights organizations to take urgent action to bring an end to these violations, hold those responsible accountable, and provide the necessary protection for civilians in Sudan.
Earlier on Monday, Sudanese authorities announced casualties in a drone attack carried out by the RSF on the city of Sinja.
Local sources told Anadolu that RSF drones targeted Sinja, causing deaths and injuries.
The sources said the drones also struck the headquarters of the army’s 17th Infantry Division in the city, but no immediate comment was issued by the military.
Meanwhile, Sudan’s Ministry of Information said that the governor of White Nile State, Lt. Gen. Qamar al-Din Mohammed Fadl al-Mawla, survived a drone attack that targeted an official meeting in the city of Sinja, while two of his aides, a state protocol official and a member of his personal security detail, were killed.
Separately, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement that its field monitoring teams estimated that 8,125 people had been displaced across 13 scattered villages in the Kornoi area in North Darfur State on Friday due to worsening security conditions caused by military operations in the area.
It explained that the displacement took place from the affected villages to other areas in Kornoi, as well as across Sudan’s western border into Chad.
Earlier, the Sudanese army announced the killing and wounding of hundreds of fighters and the destruction of dozens of vehicles and military equipment after targeting concentrations of the RSF in the states of Darfur, Kordofan, and Blue Nile.
Of Sudan’s 18 states, the RSF controls all five in the Darfur region in the west, excluding some northern parts of North Darfur that remain under army control. The army, in turn, holds most areas of the remaining 13 states in the south, north, east and center, including the capital Khartoum.
The conflict between the Sudanese army and the RSF, which began in April 2023, has since killed thousands of people and displaced millions of others