Death toll in Hilaliya rises to 161 by Rapid Support Forces militia

The Nidaa Al-Wasat Human Rights s Platform in Sudan’s Gezira State reported today (Friday) that the death toll at the hands of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the city of Hilaliya has risen to 161 after 15 days of a “suffocating siege.”

The platform stated, on its Facebook page, that 14 of the dead were killed by the outlaw RSF bullets, while 147 died “due to the deterioration of their health as the result of food poisoning after eating spoiled and poisoned food” that it said the insurgent RSF militia distributed to them.

The platform accused the Rapid Support Forces of preventing medical personnel from treating the injured, which led to the deaths, demanding the immediate lifting of the “siege” on the city and allowing the sick and injured to be treated.

Yesterday, Thursday, the Sudanese Foreign Ministry accused the Rapid Support Forces of killing 120 civilians in the city of Hilaliya in two days, noting that they died either “by being shot or as a result of food poisoning and the lack of medical care for hundreds of civilians.”