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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Zeinab Mohammed Salih

‘They killed civilians in their beds’: chaos and brutality reign after fall of El Fasher

People fleeing from El Fasher after the town was captured by RSF militiamen arriving in Tawila on Sunday.
People fleeing from El Fasher after the town was captured by RSF militiamen on Sunday arriving in Tawila. Photograph: supplied

Nawal Khalil had been volunteering as a nurse for three years at El Fasher South hospital when the Sudanese city was captured on Sunday by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). She was busy treating patients, including an elderly woman who needed a blood transfusion, when the attack began.

“They killed six wounded soldiers and civilians in their beds – some of them women,” she says. “I don’t know what happened to my other patients. I had to run when they stormed the hospital.”

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