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Five civilians are killed in a drone strike launched by the Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum, Sudan.
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In Short: A paramilitary drone strike in Khartoum killed five civilians on Saturday, the second such attack in the city this week, according to a rights group.
A paramilitary drone killed five civilians on Saturday when it hit a vehicle in greater Khartoum, Sudan, a rights group said, marking the second such attack in the capital this week.
Emergency Lawyers, a Sudanese legal advocacy group, reported that the drone strike occurred on the Jammouiya Triangle road in southern Omdurman, just across the Nile from Khartoum proper, on Saturday morning.
The vehicle was traveling from the Sheikh al-Siddiq area in White Nile state, about 90 kilometers south of Khartoum, the group noted. Last Tuesday, a drone strike hit a hospital in the Jebel Awliya area, around 40 kilometers south of central Khartoum, according to security sources and eyewitnesses.
In a separate incident, a drone attack targeted a fuel depot in Libya's capital Tripoli on Thursday, causing minor damage, the state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) reported.
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- RSF Drone Strike Kills Five in Sudan Capital A paramilitary drone killed five civilians on Saturday when it hit a vehicle in greater Khartoum, a rights group said, the second such attack in the Sudanese capital this…
- Emergency Lawyers, a Sudanese legal advocacy group documenting abuses during the conflict, said an RSF drone struck a civilian vehicle on the Jammouiya Triangle road Saturday morning in southern Omdurman -- just…
- The vehicle was travelling from the Sheikh al-Siddiq area in White Nile state, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) south of Khartoum, the group said.
- Last Tuesday, a drone strike hit a hospital in the Jebel Awliya area, around 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of central Khartoum, a security source and eyewitnesses told AFP.
- Libya's NOC Reports Drone Attack Attempt at Fuel Depot A remote-controlled drone attack targeted a fuel depot in Libya's capital Tripoli on Thursday, causing minor damage, the state-owned National Oil Corporation…
- Military sources said the fighting began in the early hours of Thursday when the Houthis launched a broad assault on government and National Resistance positions across several sectors.
- The group fired hundreds of artillery and mortar rounds during the assault and deployed drones in combat operations, the sources said.
- The Houthis seized several positions during the opening hours of the attack before government forces, fighters from Taiz and the National Resistance launched a counterattack and recaptured a number of them, according…
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