A local activist committee reported on Tuesday that 31 people were killed in a military airstrike on a mosque in Sudan‘s central city of Wad Madani, two days prior.
The strike occurred after evening prayers on Sunday in Al-Jazira state’s capital, just south of Khartoum. The Wad Madani Resistance Committee, one of the volunteer groups coordinating aid throughout the war-torn country, released the statement early Tuesday via AFP.
The committee accused the army of deploying “barrel bombs” and noted that over half of the victims were still unidentified, as rescuers continued to recover “dozens of charred and mutilated bodies.”
Since April 2023, war has ravaged Sudan, pitting the Sudanese armed forces against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), leading to tens of thousands of deaths and triggering the world’s largest displacement and humanitarian crisis.
Both forces have been embroiled in fierce battles over Al-Jazira state, an agricultural hub under RSF control since late last year. Each side has been accused of committing war crimes, including targeting civilians, indiscriminate shelling of residential areas, and obstructing or looting humanitarian aid.
The RSF, in particular, has faced allegations of widespread looting, laying siege to villages, and engaging in systematic sexual violence in Al-Jazira and other regions across Sudan.
