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 At least 60 killed in attack on Sudan's al-Fashir, activists say
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04:50 AM October, 11 2025 سودانيز اون لاين
Hassan Farah-جمهورية استونيا
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At least 60 killed in attack on Sudan's al-Fashir, activists say
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Sat, October 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM PDT
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(Reuters) -Drone and artillery strikes by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on a shelter in the Sudanese city of al-Fashir killed at least 60 people on Friday night and Saturday morning, according to local activists.
Al-Fashir is under siege by the RSF as it struggles to wrest control of the army's last stronghold in the Darfur region.
The RSF denied that civilians were killed in al-Fashir as a result of its strikes, describing the reports as "entirely baseless" in a statement released late on Saturday.
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The siege has spread hunger and disease in the city and relentless drone and artillery strikes have hit displacement shelters, mosques, and hospitals and clinics.
"Bodies remain under the rubble, and others were burned alive inside the shelter caravans, children, women, and elderly killed in cold blood, the Al-Fashir Resistance Committee said in a statement earlier on Saturday. It said in a later statement that the shelter had been hit twice by drones and eight times by artillery shells.
The resistance committee said hundreds of civilians have been killed by the attacks, and residents who spoke to Reuters said they had dug bunkers into their homes and neighborhoods for protection.
The activist group said the city is losing 30 people on average daily to violence, hunger, and disease.
(Reporting by Nafisa EltahirEditing by Mark Potter, Toby Chopra and Alistair Bell)
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Dozens killed by paramilitary drone and artillery attacks in Sudan
Mike Heuer
Sat, October 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM PDT
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Shelling and drone strikes by paramilitary forces late Friday killed at least 60 Sudanese refugees in the North Darfur city of el-Fasher. Photo by Marwan Mohamed/EPA
Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Locals said a drone and artillery attack on a refugee shelter by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in el-Fasher, Sudan, late Friday killed at least 60.
Local activists said the RSF struck the Dar al-Arqam refugee camp with two drone attacks and eight artillery shells, which the RSF has denied, the BBC reported.
"Children, women and the elderly were killed in cold blood, and many were completely burned," members of an el-Fasher resistance committee said in a prepared statement on Saturday.
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The strikes killed at least 14 children and 15 women in the besieged city that is located in North Darfur in western Sudan.
Another 21 people, including five children, also were injured, according to the Sudan Doctors' Network.
The SDN called the attack a "massacre" and blamed the RSF, despite the paramilitary unit's denial.
The attack struck the al Arqam Home that shelters displaced families in el-Fasher, Sky News reported.
The city has been under siege from paramilitary forces and caught in the middle of fighting between Sudan's military forces and paramilitaries operating in the region.
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The RSF is among those paramilitaries and is trying to establish a separatist government in the North Dafur region.
El-Fasher is the last stronghold held by Sudan's army in the Darfur area and has been surrounded by the RSF for 17 months.
The RSF controls most of the Darfur region and much of the Kordofan province in central Sudan.
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Death toll from RSF attack rises to 60 in Sudan's El-Fasher: activists
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Sat, October 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM PDT
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Sudanese residents gather to receive free meals in El-Fasher, a city besieged by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than a year, in Darfur region, on 11 August, 2025.
A drone and artillery attack killed at least 60 people at a displacement camp in Sudan's El-Fasher on Saturday, activists said, as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) intensifies its assault on the besieged western city.
The resistance committee for El-Fasher, the North Darfur state capital, said the RSF hit the Dar al-Arqam displacement centre on the grounds of a university.
"Children, women and the elderly were killed in cold blood, and many were completely burned," it said.
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"The situation has gone beyond disaster and genocide inside the city, and the world remains silent."
The committee had initially put the toll at 30 dead, but said bodies remained trapped underground.
It later said 60 were killed in the attack involving two drones and eight artillery shells.
The local resistance committees are activists who coordinate aid and document atrocities in the Sudan conflict.
The RSF has been at war with the regular army since April 2023. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced millions and pushed nearly 25 million into acute hunger.
Starvation spreads from camps to besieged Sudanese city of El-Fasher
Strategic front
El-Fasher, the last state capital in the vast region of Darfur to elude the RSF's grasp, has become the latest strategic front in the war
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