RED SEA STATE, Sudan: Sudanese paramilitary forces have killed at least 28 people in an attack on a village south of the capital Khartoum, a local doctors鈥� committee said on Sunday.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out a 鈥渕assacre鈥� in 鈥渢he village of Um Adam鈥� 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of the city on Saturday, the Sudan Doctors Committee said in a statement.
Sudan鈥檚 war between the military, under army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, and the RSF, commanded by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, began last April 15.
Many thousands of people have been killed, including up to 15,000 in a single town in the war-ravaged Darfur region, according to United Nations experts.
The war has also displaced more than 8.5 million people, practically destroyed Sudan鈥檚 already fragile infrastructure and pushed the country to the brink of famine.
Saturday鈥檚 attack 鈥渞esulted in the killing (of) at least 28 innocent villagers and more than 240 people wounded,鈥� the committee said.
It added that 鈥渢here are a number of dead and wounded in the village that we were not able to count鈥� due to the fighting and difficulty in reaching health facilities.
A local activists鈥� committee had given a toll of 25 earlier in the day.
A medical source at the Manaqil hospital, 80 kilometers away, confirmed to AFP that they had 鈥渞eceived 200 wounded, some of whom arrived too late.鈥�
鈥淲e鈥檙e facing a shortage of blood and we don鈥檛 have enough medical personnel,鈥� he added.
More than 70 percent of Sudan鈥檚 health facilities are out of service, according to the UN, while those remaining receive many times their capacity and have meagre resources.
Both sides in the conflict have been accused of war crimes, including targeting civilians, indiscriminate shelling of residential areas and looting and obstructing aid.
Since taking over Al-Jazira state just south of Khartoum in December, the RSF has laid siege to and attacked entire villages such as Um Adam.
By March, at least 108 villages and settlements across the country had been set on fire and 鈥減artially or completely destroyed,鈥� the UK-based Center for Information Resilience has found.