El Fasher , June 30(Darfur 24)
Three internally displaced people IDPs were killed and 18 others, including 10 children, were injured on Saturday, as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) renewed artillery shelling on Abshuk camp for displaced people, north of the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur
The battles for El Fasher began on May 10, after both sides of the war mobilized thousands of soldiers and fighters from movements, militias, and mobilized to fight alongside them, as a fateful battle that could determine the future of the Darfur region.
The Abshuk Camp Emergency Room said in a statement on its page that three displaced people were killed due to a number of shells fired towards the camp and targeting them, killing and wounding 21 people and destroying a number of homes.
A medical source at the Saudi Hospital confirmed that the hospital received dead and wounded as a result of renewed artillery shelling in the camp.
The Abshuk camp for displaced persons is one of the second largest displacement camps in the city of El Fasher, with a population of approximately 152,000 people. Before the outbreak of fighting between the Sudanese army and the forces of the movements allied with it on the one hand and the Rapid Support Forces on the other, reports indicated that more than 60% of the population was displaced from the camp towards Zamzam camp. And south of the city after the intensification of battles and artillery shelling towards the camp.
Artillery shelling targeting the airport
An army source in El Fasher, the capital, revealed that El Fasher International Airport was subjected to heavy artillery shelling with a number of shells inside and around the airport by the Rapid Support Forces on Friday evening.
The source, who preferred to withhold his name, denied to Darfur 24 that there were material or human losses at the airport and that shells exploded in the open without the runway or the control tower being affected by the bombing.
He said that the Rapid Support targeted the airport with more than 9 shells and more than 20 shells around the perimeter of the airport, which is adjacent to the headquarters of the Humanitarian Aid Commission, El Fasher University, and the Anti-Smuggling Department, and 500 meters from the Saudi Specialized Hospital for Women and Obstetrics, the only hospital serving citizens in the city.
While an eyewitness in the city of El Fasher told “Darfur 24” that the airport bombing operations by the Rapid Support came to stop the army marches that were launched from it and to destroy the Sudanese army’s air defenses at the airport, which shot down a number of Rapid Support marches before detonating their shells in a number of neighborhoods and service institutions in the city of El Fasher. .
There are thousands of reserve forces in the vicinity of El Fasher Airport from the Nyala, Zalingei, El Geneina, El Daein, and Brigades that fell into the hands of the Rapid Support last year.
El Fasher International Airport is located west of the city, 2 km from the city center, and it is one of the proposed routes for delivering relief materials to the Darfur region within the Al-Tineh and Al-Dabba border routes in the northern state.