Sudan RSF Militia killed many civilians in El-Fasher Hospital, the chief and doctors said
Militia rapid support forces have reportedly killed hundreds of civilians at the main hospital in El-Fasher, days after capturing the Sudanese city, the head of the UN health agency said.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the UN Health Agency was “shocked and deeply shocked” by the killing of 460 people at the hospital.
Earlier, the network of Sudanese doctors said on Tuesday that the RSF Fighters “caught cold and killed everyone they found in a Saudi hospital, including patients, their friends, and anyone else there”.
It did not provide figures for the presentation, but said the city’s medical facilities had been ‘turned into shams’.
The Sudanese Student Network also accused the RSF of kidnapping six hostages – including four doctors, a pharmacist and a nurse – and reportedly demanded ransoms of more than $150,000 (£114,000) for their release.
Tuesday’s attack on a Saudi hospital was also reported by the El-Fasher Resistance Committee, a local activist group, which said there was “eerie silence” afterwards.
The city was the last military stronghold in the Darfur region, and was captured by the RSF on Sunday after an 18-month siege marked by starvation and heavy shelling.
Since the conflict broke out in April 2023, the RSF and the Arab Militia in Darfur have been accused of targeting non-Arab targets – allegations the RSF denies.
With the fall of El-FASHER, the UN, activists and aid activists expressed fear for the fate of the estimated 250,000 people imprisoned in the city, many from non-Arab communities.
The Communications Blackout made it difficult to confirm what was happening.
BBC Confirm has edited new videos posted on social media showing RSF Fighters carrying out a number of unarmed people in the past few days.
People who arrived in Tawila have been describing the extreme violence they faced as they fled El-Fasher [AFP/Getty Images]
With difficulty getting reports from the ground, aid agencies say the full extent of the damage inside El-Fasher is only beginning to emerge.
Some people managed to make the dangerous journey to the town of Tawila, about 67 kilometers (67 miles) west of El-Fasher, and described the extreme violence they faced.
“The shelling was so heavy on Saturday that we had no choice but to flee to El-Fashir,” one man told BBC Arabic’s LifeLine Plagraph.
“On the way, the RSF captured us and we were beaten and humiliated – and they stole what we caught on the trip.
“Some of those who were captured were later killed. During the journey, many people were arrested, and we suffered greatly from hunger and thirst.”
Jan Egeland, a former senior UN official, told the BBC the situation was catastrophic.
“We’ve burned through all those months of missing, starving, no medical care,” she said.
“I think this is the worst place in the world right now; it’s the biggest human emergency in the world and it’s happening in the dark, really – there’s been very little attention to what’s going on in Sudan.”
Dr. Tedros said that before the attack on the Saudi hospital, who had confirmed 185 attacks on health care facilities since the beginning of the war, resulting in 1,204 deaths.
“All attacks on health must stop immediately and without conditions. All patients, health facilities and health facilities must be protected under international law. he said.
El-FASHER’s successful takeover of the country, with the RSF now controlling most of Darfur and most of the neighboring Kordofan and the army in charge of the capital, Khartoum, the middle east and the Red Sea.
The two warring rivals have also previously partnered – coming to power together in 2021 – but fell short of the internationally-backed plan to go to civilian rule.
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