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Residents flee Khartoum as fighting continues

People gather to get bread during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum [El-Tayeb Siddig/Reuters]

Thousands of residents have fled Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, where witnesses said bodies lay in the streets, after a 24-hour truce failed to hold between the army and paramilitaries.

By Wednesday, five days of fighting in Khartoum and elsewhere in the northeast African country had killed at least 270 people.

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