Scores killed by RSF drone strike on mosque in besieged Sudanese city
Source: The Guardian
Scores killed by RSF drone strike on mosque in besieged Sudanese city
First responders say 75 worshippers dead as paramilitaries push to capture last foothold of Sudanese army in Darfur
Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi and agencies
Fri 19 Sep 2025 15.45 BST
Last modified on Sat 20 Sep 2025 02.31 BST
A drone strike by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher has killed 75 people worshipping in a mosque, first responders have said, as the group continued its push to capture the last foothold of Sudan’s army in the Darfur region.
The attack, one of the deadliest this year in the city, hit the al-Daraja neighbourhood, where civilians from the famine-hit Abu Shouk displacement camp had fled after it was overrun by fighters .
“The bodies were retrieved from the rubble of the mosque,” said the Emergency Response Room volunteer group. Social media videos show bodies trapped under rubble and debris.
RSF has not commented on the incident. The paramilitary group has been engaged in a raging civil war with the Sudanese Armed Forces since April 2023 but since the army’s capture of the capital, Khartoum, in March, the RSF has been fighting to maintain territorial dominance of Darfur, its stronghold.
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