This photo taken on Feb. 1, 2025 shows workers using a loader to remove debris of a building damaged during an attack at Sabreen Market in Karari locality of Omdurman, north of the Sudanese capital Khartoum. (Khartoum State Press Office/Handout via Xinhua)
Port Sudan, Sudan: Shelling by Sudanese paramilitaries killed five people just outside one of the last functioning hospitals in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman on Tuesday, with medical sources reporting escalating violence across the war-torn country.
A medical source in Al Nao Hospital in Omdurman near Sudan's capital, requesting anonymity for safety reasons, said people volunteering at the facility were among the five dead in the attack.
This photo taken on Feb. 1, 2025 shows the debris after an attack at Sabreen Market in Karari locality of Omdurman, north of the Sudanese capital Khartoum. (Khartoum State Press Office/Handout via Xinhua)
"The shells landed in the garden adjacent to the hospital," the source said, blaming the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), at war with the regular army since April 2023.
Al-Nao Hospital, which is supported by medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF), lies in an area controlled by the Sudanese army and has been repeatedly attacked since the start of the war.
Greater Khartoum has been one of the main battlegrounds of the struggle for power between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
The fighting, which has already killed tens of thousands and uprooted more than 12 million people, has escalated in recent weeks as the army mounted an offensive to wrest control of central Sudan and the capital itself.
The RSF has retreated from much of the central state of Al Jazira but has launched repeated attacks on Khartoum, killing dozens of civilians.
While the army controls the country's east and north, the paramilitaries maintain their hold on nearly all of the western region of Darfur -- a vast area the size of France and home to a quarter of Sudan's estimated 50 million people.
In South Darfur state capital Nyala, 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) away from Khartoum, witnesses said the military launched air strikes on Tuesday for the second day in a row.
Some 200 kilometres north, RSF artillery rocked North Darfur state capital El-Fasher -- the only major Darfur city not under paramilitary control -- with "shells landing on the cattle market", a witness told AFP.
