Sudanese police accuse RSF paramilitaries after 11 bodies found at bottom of a well in Khartoum

CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese authorities said Sunday galore bodies person been recovered astatine the bottommost of a good successful the capital, Khartoum, a fewer days aft the subject cleared the country from a notorious paramilitary group.

The bodies of 11 people, including women and children, were recovered Saturday from the heavy good successful the Fayhaa vicinity of the city, according to police.

Col. Abdul-Rahanan Mohamed Hassan, caput of the civilian defense’s tract squad successful Khartoum, said a hunt of the the country was mounted aft residents reported that they recovered a dormant assemblage successful the well.

“We recovered wrong this good antithetic characters (bodies), males and females, adults and children,” Hassan said, adding that authorities were inactive searching the well.

Police accidental the victims were killed by the Rapid Support Forces earlier being thrown into the good erstwhile the paramilitary unit was controlling the area. The subject retook the country earlier this period arsenic portion of its sweeping advances successful Khartoum and its sister metropolis of Omdurman.

There was nary contiguous remark from the RSF.

Afraa al-Hajj Omar, a nonmigratory of the adjacent Hajj Youssef neighborhood, said that the RSF killed galore radical successful the country and their bodies were near for days successful the streets. She said galore bodies were thrown successful the well. “They robbed us, bushed us, and tortured us,” she said.

Sudan was plunged into chaos successful April 2023 erstwhile simmering tensions betwixt the subject and the almighty paramilitary Rapid Support Forces exploded into unfastened warfare crossed the country.

At slightest 20,000 radical person been killed, though the fig is apt acold higher. The warfare has driven much than 14 cardinal radical from their homes and pushed parts of the state into famine.

The fighting, which wrecked Khartoum and different municipality areas has been marked by atrocities including wide rape and ethnically motivated killings that magnitude to warfare crimes and crimes against humanity, particularly successful the occidental portion of Darfur, according to the United Nations and planetary rights groups.

The warfare has intensified successful caller months, with the subject making dependable advances against the RSF successful Khartoum and elsewhere successful the country.