Omdurman – Al-Yurae- On Thursday, the west of the capital, Khartoum, witnessed heavy shelling of residential areas north of the city of Omdurman by the Rapid Support Forces with army drones flying in the vicinity of the Mohandessin area.
Some residents in the north of Omdurman told (AlYurae) over the phone that heavy artillery shelling continued most of the day on areas and neighborhoods adjacent to the main army base and that many shells fell on residential houses in the south and west of the city and in the western neighborhoods of the suburb of Al-Thawra in northern Omdurman, as some local media reported that artillery shelling from the Rapid Support focused on an army base in Omdurman Al-Zubair roundabout
The areas of Al-Murabaqat, Al-Fatihab and Al-Bustan witnessed clashes too between the Rapid Support Army in Omdurman on Wednesday morning, while the communications network (Zain) returned to service in Omdurman after being cut off since Tuesday, with the continued interruption of the (Sudani) network.
Citizens revealed to Radio (Dabanga) widespread looting in the squares of the commercial Bank in Al-Fatihab, carried out by hundreds of soldiers wearing rapid support uniforms.
Identical sources told Radio Dabanga that hundreds of soldiers arrived in the area about a week ago and are carrying out widespread looting and transporting all citizens’ belongings from homes, including household utensils, via trucks and heading to an unknown destination.
Citizens pointed to information that could not be confirmed that the force arrived through the (Al-Sader) route, despite the army’s earlier announcement that the road would be closed and vehicles passing through it would be considered a military target.
The Rapid Support Forces announced on Wednesday that it had carried out a major qualitative operation in the army camp in the Karari military area, which resulted in huge losses in lives and equipment, according to the statement. According to the statement issued and published on its official page on the platform «X», “the operation was planned and implemented accurately, and targeted gatherings belonging to the security and intelligence service” the statement said.
It said the death toll reached more than 280 personnel, in addition to the destruction of 3 tanks, 5 various cannons, ammunition store, vehicles and troop carriers.
Displacement and looting
Since the beginning of the war, large numbers of residents of the old neighborhoods of Omdurman and Ombada have fled to the Karari locality in the north of the city and outside the capital to escape the war, while widespread looting of citizens’ property is widespread.
A resident told Radio Dabanga from Omdurman that they had to leave their home in Umbada as a result of being looted and assaulted by groups of masked gunmen twice over the course of a week.
He explained that the unruly move in large groups and carry the belongings of citizens on the motors (tuk-tuks and trucks) and assault citizens by beating and threatening to kill.
He pointed to the difficulty of staying under these conditions, noting that there is no one working to protect them due to the chaos and the large spread of criminal groups that terrorize, loot and rob citizens.
Since the outbreak of the military conflict between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces on April 15, residential neighborhoods in the capital, Khartoum, have been destroyed by the use of heavy weapons and air strikes, in addition to what is known as indiscriminate shelling, which targets residential areas that do not contain any military targets, amid the denial of responsibility by both sides for these attacks, which led to the death and injury of a large number of civilians.
