At least 127 people, primarily civilians, were murdered in two days of shelling in Sudan

According to rights groups, the warring parties’ barrel bombs and artillery killed at least 127 people in Sudan on Monday and Tuesday, the majority of them were civilians.

The army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been engaged in a deadly conflict for the past 20 months while peace attempts have failed and international attention has been diverted by crises in other places.

RSF raids and heavy artillery attacks have been carried out, while the army has increased bombing in the RSF-controlled side of the nation. Both have gone for civilian regions with a high population.

The Al-Fashir Resistance Committee, which supports democracy, reported that more than eight-barrel bombs struck the market in Kabkabiya, a town in North Darfur, on Monday. According to the human rights organization Emergency Lawyers, hundreds were injured and over 100 people were killed.

As the army battles the RSF for control of the state capital, al-Fashir, its final stronghold in the area, it has regularly launched airstrikes against communities in North Darfur.

While maintaining that it had the authority to strike any area the RSF exploited for military objectives, it disputed ownership of the attack on Kabkabiya. An inquiry was not immediately answered by the RSF.

An photograph of a mass burial with veiled remains was posted by Emergency Lawyers.

Reuters confirmed that the market was littered with bleeding bodies. There were also depictions of individuals being lifted from the ruins of fruit stands and shops, as well as fires raging.

In the video, some are seen sobbing and yelling, and others are seen praying for the deceased. “People are dying wholesale,” a guy can be heard saying.

In the footage, armed men wearing the headwraps that RSF soldiers usually wear when riding motorbikes are also seen.

According to a Kabkabiya activist, the market and other areas of the town usually had a few military, but the great majority of people there were civilians.

Though others were too burned or disfigured to be identified, he added that 87 bodies had been identified.

Residents of one area of Omdurman, which is under army authority in Khartoum state, said that the RSF directed heavy artillery fire on there Tuesday.

According to emergency lawyers, at least 20 people were murdered, including at least 14 passengers on a bus that was struck. 65 people were murdered, according to the army-run state administration, while other injuries were sent to the neighboring Al-Naw Hospital.

Social media posts that Reuters did not verify featured masked bodies on the street surrounded by car wreckage.

Over 30 million people, according to the UN, require relief, and about 12 million have abandoned their homes.

“The Coordinating Committee for Displaced People spokesperson, Adam Rojal, has declared famine in Zamzam camp in North Darfur, where shelling killed seven people on Tuesday.”