Sudan rescuers say air strike killed 23 in Khartoum market

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Sudan rescuers say air strike killed 23 in Khartoum market

Smoke plumes rise amid clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum (Reuters)

PORT SUDAN

: A Sudanese network of

volunteer rescuers

said on Sunday the

military

carried out an

air strike

a day earlier on a marketplace in

Khartoum

, leaving 23 people dead.
The market is near the main camp in the capital of the paramilitary

Rapid Support Forces

(RSF), with whom the military is fighting a

civil war

that has killed tens of thousands of people.

"Twenty-three people were confirmed dead and more than 40 others wounded" and taken to hospital after "military air strikes on Saturday afternoon on the main market" in southern Khartoum, the youth-led

Emergency Response Rooms

said in a post on Facebook.

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