Over 200 people have been killed by Sudanese paramilitaries in a three-day assault south of Khartoum.

The Guardian, UK, quoted a lawyers’ network as saying, adding that the army-backed government put the death toll at more than 400.

The Emergency Lawyers network documented human rights abuses that took place in the country during 22 months of fighting between the rival security forces.

The network revealed that hundreds more were wounded or missing and feared drowned after the paramilitaries opened fire on villagers as they attempted to flee across the White Nile.

The Sudanese government’s foreign ministry said it was actually 433 people, including children, that were murdered in the attack by the paramilitary known as the Rapid Support Forces, RSF.

Witnesses said that thousands of people tried to flee the attack on the White Nile state villages of al-Kadaris and al-Khelwat, 100km (60 miles) south of the capital.

A spokesperson for the UN secretary general, António Guterres, said the world body had received “horrifying reports that dozens of women were raped and hundreds of families were forced to flee”.

Emergency Lawyers said that for three days RSF fighters had subjected unarmed civilians to “executions, kidnappings, forced disappearances and looting”.

Both the army and the paramilitaries have been accused of war crimes since the war broke out in April 2023.


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