The Ministry of Health in Khartoum state has confirmed that at least 54 people were killed and 158 others injured on Saturday, as a result of artillery shelling allegedly launched by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Sabreen Market in Karari locality in Omdurman.

At least 54 people were killed in an attack on a crowded market in the Sudanese city of Omdurman, the Health Ministry said. The attack was blamed on the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group that has been locked in a brutal power struggle with Sudanese troops since April 2023.

Sudan’s health authorities say a notorious paramilitary group fighting against the country’s military has attacked an open market in the city of Omdurman, killing 54 people

KHARTOUM, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from shelling by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Saturday on a crowded market in Omdurman, north of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, has risen to 54, Sudan's Ministry of Health announced.

Since April 2023, the paramilitary RSF has been at war with the regular army, in a brutal conflict that has killed tens of thousands and uprooted over 12 million.

There was no immediate comment from the Rapid Support Forces. The Sudanese government condemned the attack, saying that the casualties included many women and children.

The attack by the Rapid Support Forces on the Sabrein Market was the latest in a series of deadly attacks in the escalated civil war that has wrecked the northeastern African country.