WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: A maternity hospital in El-Fasher, Sudan, was reportedly attacked by paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Sunday, with 460 people killed
460 people have been killed in a horror maternity hospital massacre(Image: Getty)
Just days after reports surfaced of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) executing 2,000 civilians in a horrifying 48-hour killing spree in El-Fasher, Sudan, new allegations of another atrocity are starting to surface. According to the World Health Organization, the city’s last standing maternity hospital was “attacked for the fourth time in a month, killing one nurse and injuring three other health workers,” on Sunday, October 27.
Two days later, the agency reported that “six health workers, four doctors, a nurse and a pharmacist, were abducted,” and “more than 460 patients and their companions were reportedly shot and killed in the hospital,” by RSF paramilitaries. Video footage purportedly showing the aftermath of the hospital massacre depicted bodies strewn across the floor amid debris and shattered equipment.
A gynecologist at the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher recounted the terror she experienced on Sunday when the hospital came under attack to UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.
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“I was performing surgery in the hospital when heavy shelling occurred. A mortar hit the hospital. I was so worried because the woman’s wounds were open, and everyone was running around me,” she said.
More than 2,000 unarmed citizens, mostly women children and the elderly, were ‘executed and killed’ on October 26 and 27(Image: Getty)
The RSF has been locked in conflict with Sudan’s army for more than two years, leading to tens of thousands of deaths and forcing approximately 12 million people from their homes.
The brutal siege tactics employed in El-Fasher, which collapsed to the RSF following 18 months of intense combat, have reached such devastating levels that the UN has classified it as one of the globe’s most severe humanitarian disasters, reports the Express.
Officials have formally declared famine conditions in refugee camps surrounding El-Fasher, while residents trapped within the city have resorted to consuming livestock feed for survival.
Before the city’s capture, the UN issued warnings that 260,000 individuals remained stranded there without humanitarian assistance, with children comprising half of those affected.
The siege in El-Fasher has been labelled by the UN as among the world’s worst humanitarian crises(Image: Getty)
These developments follow disturbing video evidence released by local campaigners that allegedly depicted a combatant executing a group of defenseless civilians seated on the ground at close range during the weekend.
Additional unconfirmed recordings circulated by pro-democracy advocates also revealed scores of bodies scattered across the ground near destroyed vehicles.
Joint Forces, a militia organization allied with the army, announced on Tuesday (October 28) that the RSF:
“Committed heinous crimes against innocent civilians in the city of El-Fasher.”
The group alleged that over 2,000 defenseless citizens were “executed and killed” on October 26 and 27, with the majority being “women, children and the elderly.”