More than a thousand people were evacuated from centers and facilities in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, through humanitarian corridors in the city and in a brief three-hour break in the fighting.
The information was revealed by a worker of the Sudanese Red Crescent, on condition of anonymity to the Efe agency. He specified that the more than 1,000 people were evacuated from various schools, offices and institutions in the center of Khartoum, where they had been hiding since Saturday morning, when clashes began between the country’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in its acronym in English) paramilitaries.
Also according to the Red Crescent worker, a large group of local journalists and regional television correspondents were trapped, without giving further details.
Meanwhile, around 450 students from the Kamboni School in the center of Khartoum were also taken from the school, where they were held for more than 24 hours, the school said in a statement.
Fighting between the two sides continued for the second day in a row and has so far left at least 56 civilians dead and around 600 wounded, according to the Sudan Medical Committee.
Faced with the escalation of violence in densely populated cities, the army and RSF accepted a UN proposal to establish humanitarian corridors and ceased fighting in residential areas between 4:00 p.m. local time and 7:00 p.m.
However, hostilities did not stop in areas far from urban centers, such as near the army headquarters, or in the vicinity of Khartoum International Airport, where there was an explosion in a fuel depot.
The clashes began on Saturday morning, two days after the Army warned that the country was going through a “dangerous situation” that could lead to an armed conflict, after the deployment of RSF units in the Sudanese capital and other cities, without the consent or coordination of the armed forces.
Source: Observadora
