According to a local NGO, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were responsible for at least 40 civilian deaths on Sunday in Gezira State, Sudan.
A non-governmental organization called the Abu Gouta Resistance Committee stated that “RSF attack on Gouz Al-Naqa village of Abu Gouta area in Gezira State killed at least 40 civilians.”
Xinhua News Agency published a statement saying several corpses remained exposed in Al-Naqa village, as the RSF is preventing displaced people from returning home to bury the dead.
After taking over the capital Wad Madani in December 2023 and forcing the army to retreat after intense combat, the paramilitary group now at war with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) seized control of Gezira.
The committee requested that civil society groups put pressure on the RSF to grant residents access to bury the deceased.
Regarding the attack, the RSF has not yet released any statement.
Fighting broke out on April 15, 2023, between the RSF of General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo and the Sudanese army led by General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, resulting in thousands of deaths, millions of displaced people, and one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in the history of Sudan.