The local governor says that the attack knocked out a nearby power plant for the fourth time since the war began two years ago.
An attack of drones suspended from the rapid support forces of Sudan (RSF) has killed at least 11 people in a displacement camp in the state of River Nile, authorities said.
In a statement on Friday night, the local governor said that the attack knocked out a nearby power plant for the fourth time since the war between the RSF and the Sudanese army began two years ago.
The attack marks a deadly escalation in the ongoing conflict, with another 23 people injured, said a medical official. The witnesses said that at least nine children were among the injured.
“My son, my cousin, my daughter’s husband and the two children, my cousin’s children are dead. The boy is 10 years old and the girl is about two years old,” Halema witness told Al Jazeera.
Around the last months, the RSF has been accused of attacking the power infrastructure in areas controlled by the Sudanese army throughout the center and north of Sudan.
The RSF, directed by Mohamed Hamdan Dag Alo, known as Hemedti, denies drone attacks.
Friday’s attack reached an improvised camp approximately 3 km (2 miles) from the ATBARA power station outside the city of Al-Damer.
The camp housed about 180 who had fled from fighting in the capital, Jartum, and lived in abandoned buildings and tents with minimal humanitarian assistance.
“The first drone attack came and landed just behind us,” said Mawaheh Mohamed, another survivor of the attack.
“Fifteen minutes later, another came: four in total. He decided to leave because the scene was widespread, there were corpses, people had been dismembered and people in the hospital.”
After the attack, the authorities were seen to collect the remains of the tents and belongings, while the residents boarded the buses that were heading to an unknown place.
The climbing occurred in the middle of a broader collapse of the Electric Red of Sudan, with drones and missile attacks looting millions in weekly blackouts, further generating the humanitarian crisis in a country devastated by the civil war.
Sudan descended to violence in April 2023 when the tensions between the Sudanese army, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the RSF broke out in open conflicts.
Al-Burhan has been celebrating recent profits obtained by the military, even in Jartum, while the terrestrial struggle is currently concentrated in the Darfur region, where the RSF is fighting to eliminate the remaining positions of the army. Forcing Huleds from Flee.
The conflict has gatged one of the largest displacement crises in the world. According to the United Nations, more than 12.4 million people have been repressed from their homes, including 3.3 million that have fled to neighboring countries.