KHARTOUM: Sudan’s paramilitaries killed 18 civilians in an attack on two villages west of Khartoum earlier this week, a monitoring group said on Saturday.
The attack occurred on Thursday in North Kordofan state, which is key to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces’ fuel smuggling route from Libya.
The area has been a major battleground between the army and the paramilitaries for months, and communications lines with the rest of the world have been mostly cut off.
According to the Emergency Lawyers human rights group, which has documented abuses since the start of the war two years ago, the attack on the two villages in North Kordofan “killed 18 civilians and wounded dozens.”
The wounded were transferred to the state capital of El-Obeid for treatment.
