Lethal crash, attributed by sources to technical causes, comes because the army makes advances in central Sudan and the capital towards RSF.
A Sudanese army aircraft has crashed in a residential space on the outskirts of the capital, Khartoum, killing a number of officers and civilians.
The aircraft crashed late on Tuesday throughout takeoff from the Wadi Seidna army airport in northern Omdurman, a part of larger Khartoum, leaving greater than 20 folks useless, in response to army sources quoted by the Reuters information company.
The sources advised Reuters the aircraft crash was most probably as a consequence of technical causes.
Main-Normal Bahr Ahmed, a senior commander in Khartoum, was reportedly among the many useless.
The army, which has been at struggle with the paramilitary Speedy Help Forces (RSF) since April 2023, launched an announcement on Tuesday saying army personnel and civilians had been killed, with out offering additional particulars.
“The injured have been taken to hospital and firefighting groups managed to include the blaze on the crash website,” the assertion mentioned.
Residents in northern Omdurman reported a loud explosion from the crash, which broken a number of properties and prompted energy outages in surrounding neighbourhoods.
The Karari Resistance Committee, a part of a community of volunteers coordinating assist throughout Sudan, reported that 10 our bodies and several other injured folks had been delivered to al-Nao Hospital in Omdurman, mentioned a report by the AFP information company.
‘Additional escalation’
The struggle in Sudan, which has killed tens of hundreds, erupted after a rift emerged between military chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF commander Mohamed Hamadan Daglo over the longer term construction of the federal government.
The military is at the moment making vital advances in central Sudan and Khartoum in its multi-front offensive towards the RSF.
The aircraft crash got here a day after the RSF claimed duty for downing a Russian-made Ilyushin aircraft in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur.
On Monday, United Nations Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres warned of “additional escalation” after the RSF and its allies declared they’d type a parallel authorities in areas beneath their management.
The UN says the battle has uprooted greater than 12 million folks, inflicting the world’s largest starvation and displacement crises.
