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A local official in Sudan’s south-eastern Blue Nile state said on Tuesday that drones belonging to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed nine civilians and seriously wounded others in a village near the Ethiopian border.
Abdel Ati Mohamed al-Faki, head of the Kurmuk administrative area, said in a statement on Facebook that the drones hit Bani Shako village, in the Al-Keili administrative unit north of the town of Kurmuk, and that the victims had been heading for shelters for displaced people in Ed Damazin, the state capital. The wounded were being taken to hospitals there, he said. Anadolu and The Abay Times report that he did not say when the attack took place or how many were wounded; the Sudan Tribune describes it as happening on Tuesday. The RSF had not commented.
Euronews Arabic carried the same account and added that an army source reported air strikes on positions of the RSF and its ally, the SPLM-N, in the region; that claim is separate and unverified. All four outlets rely on the official’s statement, and we found no hospital, aid-agency or independent confirmation. The Abay Times notes it is unclear who controlled the village when it was struck.
The official said the wounded were being taken to hospitals in Ed Damazin, the same state capital where the reported victims had been seeking shelter.