{"id":34743,"date":"2023-09-11T02:14:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T02:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=34743"},"modified":"2023-09-11T02:14:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T02:14:12","slug":"sudan-conflict-dozens-killed-in-attack-on-khartoum-market-medics-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=34743","title":{"rendered":"Sudan conflict: Dozens killed in attack on Khartoum market, medics say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>At least 35 people have been killed after a crowded market in Sudan&#8217;s capital was hit with &#8220;explosive weapons&#8221;, a medical charity says.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) described it as &#8220;carnage&#8221;, saying that more than 60 people had also been wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local residents say a military aircraft bombarded the Qouro market in southern Khartoum on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rival military factions have been fighting since April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday MSF&#8217;s emergency co-ordinator Marie Burton said Khartoum &#8220;has been at war for almost six months&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But still, the volunteers and medical personnel in Bashair hospital are shocked and overwhelmed by the scale of horror that struck the city&#8221; on Sunday, she added on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MSF said &#8220;explosive weapons&#8221; had hit the market and that air strikes and shelling continued in &#8220;another day of unthinkable suffering and loss of life&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;re trying to save the lives of people whose body parts have been ripped off by the explosion. It was a carnage,&#8221; MSF added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Loretta Charles, an MSF medic at the Bashair Teaching Hospital in Khartoum, said she treated people with blast injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We had traumatic amputations and penetrating trauma to the head, the chest, and the abdomen,&#8221; she told the BBC&#8217;s Newshour programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some estimates put the number of those killed in the strike closer to 50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sudan plunged into a civil war in April after army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo fell out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About five million people have been forced to flee their homes, and thousands have been killed. Khartoum and the western region of Darfur have been worst hit by the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The RSF controls much of Khartoum and the adjoining cities of Omdurman and Bahri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The military has repeatedly carried out air strikes in a bid to regain control of the cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An air strike killed at least 20 people, including two children, about a week ago, activists said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US, Saudi Arabia, and other countries have been trying to mediate an end to the conflict, with no success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several ceasefires have been announced to allow people to escape the fighting but these have been broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: At least 35 people have been killed after a crowded market in Sudan&#8217;s capital was hit with &#8220;explosive weapons&#8221;, a medical charity says. M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) described it as &#8220;carnage&#8221;, saying that more than 60 people had also been wounded in the attack. Local residents say a military aircraft bombarded the Qouro market in southern Khartoum on Sunday. Rival military factions have been fighting since April. On Sunday MSF&#8217;s emergency co-ordinator Marie Burton said Khartoum &#8220;has been at war for almost six months&#8221;. &#8220;But still, the volunteers and medical personnel in Bashair hospital are shocked and overwhelmed&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34745,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34743\/revisions\/34745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}