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Sudanese paramilitary RSF kills 19 after taking city of al-Nahud: Sources

A makeshift bunker was dug by civilians in the North Darfur state capital, el-Fasher, as a hideout from clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army. These hurriedly excavated holes provide the only escape from bombs falling overhead [Muammar Ibrahim/AFP]

Fighting in the Sudanese city of al-Nahud, a strategic city in West Kordofan state acting as a gateway to the Darfur region, has killed 19 people and left 37 wounded, according to sources who spoke to Al Jazeera, in the latest eruption of violence in the brutal two-year civil war.

Local sources told Al Jazeera that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which declared on Telegram that it had “liberated” al-Nahud from the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) on Thursday, had rampaged through neighbourhoods, looting the market, houses and cars.

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