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Over 130 people have died at a single hospital in Sudan’s besieged city of El Fasher, in the Darfur region, according to medical charity M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fighting between rival groups in Sudan’s civil war in the battle for control of the city has recently intensified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The situation was “terrible,” one resident told the BBC, with hospitals and markets experiencing “violent artillery shelling”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
El Fasher is the last major urban centre in Darfur that remains in the hands of Sudan’s army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The army has been fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than a year, in a civil war that has killed thousands and forced millions from their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The army remains in control of El Fasher. The city has become a refuge for people displaced by fighting in other areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On 10 May the RSF intensified their assault on the city, in what UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called “an alarming new chapter” in Sudan’s conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MSF said one of its hospital was struggling to cope with the increased casualties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
South Hospital had treated 979 casualties in just over two weeks, the charity said on Sunday. 134 had died, “a sign of the violent intensity of the fighting”, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Supplies at the hospital are running low and will last barely a week, the UN said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Friday MSF said that across the city, more than 700 people had died over the past 10 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The medical director of El Fasher’s government-run Saudi hospital told the BBC the situation was “terrible”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Since the early morning, the RSF began violent artillery shelling of the city, targeting residential areas, markets, and hospitals,” Modther Ibrahim Suliman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Saudi and South hospitals are the last functioning in the region. The Saudi Hospital was previously shuttered by the violence but it partially reopened to treat emergency cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
El Fasher residents say that access to food and water has become increasingly difficult. The RSF has been attacking the city from three sides and blocked all supply routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the hardships, many residents in the city are not leaving their homes because of the fighting, even for emergency medical care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Journalist Mohamed Zakaria said he had no plans to flee. “There is no place to go to… the road is very difficult and dangerous right now”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier this week, a UN expert warned civilians in El Fasher were being targeted because of their ethnicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n