Agencies , July 5.(Darfur 24)
At least 25 people drowned in the Blue Nile River in southeastern Sudan while trying to flee in a wooden boat from Sennar State as a result of the military advance of the Rapid Support Forces, as reported by the “Sennar Resistance Committees.”
The Sennar Resistance Committees said in a statement on Thursday that “due to the Rapid Support entry into the area, about 25 citizens, most of whom were women and children, died in a boat sinking accident east of the city of Abu Hajar, between the village of Al-Dabaiba and Loni.”
The statement continued that among the victims were “entire families of Dabaiba.”
In late June, the Rapid Support Forces took control of the Jabal Muya area in Sennar state, prompting hundreds of Sudanese families to flee towards the city of Sinja, the state capital, before it became one of the fighting fronts during the past days.
This prompted thousands of Sudanese families to flee either east or south.
The Gedaref state government, which received the largest number of displaced people from Sennar, announced in a statement on Thursday that “the number of survivors of the war and the attack by the rebel Rapid Support Forces on a number of areas in Sennar state has risen to 120,000 displaced people, of whom ninety thousand have been registered and counted through immediate and rapid intervention by the Ministry.” Health and social care and more than twenty national and international organizations.”
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on Tuesday in its bulletin on Sudan that more than 55,400 people fled the city of Sinja, the capital of Sennar State, as the conflict between the army and the Rapid Support Forces extended to the city.
In this regard, the Sudanese “Missing” Initiative, which tracks cases of missing civilians during battles and clashes, announced that “the number of missing children, including infants and newborns, reached 91 children from the city of Sinja.”