Seventeen people- five children have been killed in an air strike in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, officers say.
Twenty- five homes were destroyed in Saturday’s strike in the densely peopled Yarmouk quarter.
It came a day after a top army general threatened to step up attacks against the civil Rapid Support Forces.
Fighting between the Sudanese army and the RSF broke outmid-April as a result of a vicious power struggle within the country’s military leadership.
In early June, the RSF claimed full control of Yarmouk, an area of the capital which houses an arms manufacturing installation.
latterly on Saturday the warring coalitions agreed a 72- hour ceasefire starting at 0600( 0400 GMT) on Sunday. It was blazoned by Saudi and US intercessors. analogous ceasefires in the history haven’t been observed.
Precise numbers on the number of people killed in the fighting are delicate to establish, but it’s believed to be well over 1,000, including numerous civilians caught in the crossfire.
Roughly2.2 million people have been displaced within the country and further than half a million are sheltering in neighbouring countries, according to the UN.
Several ceasefires have been blazoned to allow people to escape the fighting but these haven’t been observed.
The recent attack targeted civilians in Mayo, Yarmouk, and Mandela areas, according to the RSF. The army has not reflected.
Since the conflict began, knockouts of thousands of civilians have fled across the border into neighbouring Chad.
Croakers and hospitals there have been overstretched and floundering to manage.
The violence has also revivified a two- decade-old conflict in Sudan’s western Darfur region.
