A vehicle moves along a road past (L) the heavily damaged building that housed the headquarters of the Central Bank of Sudan is pictured in Khartoum's Muqrin neighbourhood on March 22, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
Khartoum: Three civilians including two children were killed Sunday in an artillery attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on Omdurman, part of Greater Khartoum, a medical source told AFP.
Eyewitnesses in the area said the strikes were some of the heaviest in recent months, coming two days after the army recaptured the capital's presidential palace in a major symbolic victory.
Since April 2023, the RSF has been fighting Sudan's regular army in a war that has killed tens of thousands, uprooted over 12 million and created the world's largest hunger and displacement crises.
"Before, there used to be four or five rounds of shelling, and there was time between one strike and the next," one resident told AFP, requesting anonymity for fear of retaliation.
"This morning there were seven, one right after the other," he said.
The medical source, who is at Al-Nao hospital, one of the city's last functioning health facilities, said "two children and a woman were killed and eight others injured in the shelling".
In recent days, the army and allied armed groups have regained most of Khartoum proper's government district, just across the Nile from Omdurman.
RSF fighters remain stationed in parts of the city centre including the airport, as well as the capital's south and west. From their positions in western Omdurman, they have regularly launched strikes on civilian areas.
In February, over 50 people were killed in a single RSF artillery attack on a busy Omdurman market.
