December 10, (THEWILL) – The Emergency Lawyers, a pro-democracy group, said Tuesday that a Sudanese military airstrike on Monday killed over 100 people and injured hundreds of others in a market in Northern Darfur.
The group said the air interdiction was executed in Kabkabiya, a town about 110 miles (180km) west of El Fasher, the state capital.
“The airstrike took place on the town’s weekly market day, where residents from various nearby villages had gathered to shop, resulting in the death of more than 100 people and injury of hundreds, including women and children,” said the lawyers’ group, which has been documenting human rights abuses during the Sudanese conflict.
It described it as a “horrendous massacre committed by army airstrikes”.
Meanwhile, the military denied it carried out the attack.
The army in a statement, described the allegations as “lies” spread by political parties backing the Rapid Support Forces adding it would continue “exercising its legitimate right to defend the country”.
Tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced in a 20-month war between the RSF and Sudan’s army that has left the north-east African country on the brink of famine.
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