Militia artillery causes a massacre in El-Fashir… Hospital is overcrowded with wounded and corpses

The army base in El-Fashir, North Darfur, reported that 55 civilians were killed and others injured in two days as a result of artillery shelling by the militia on the city.

The injured in El-Fashir and nearby displacement camps are forced to use primitive materials such as salt to disinfect wounds and cloths to stop bleeding, due to the severe shortage of medicines and medical supplies caused by the siege and the closure of most healthcare facilities, which have been destroyed.

Eyewitnesses, however, reported that at least 60 civilians were killed and dozens injured as a result of the ongoing artillery shelling by the militia.

Eyewitnesses told Darfur 24 that the militia continued its artillery shelling of residential neighborhoods in El-Fashir on Sunday and Monday, killing and wounding dozens of civilians, in addition to destroying several water sources around the Abu Shouk camp for displaced persons (IDPs). Witnesses added that the militia resumed its indiscriminate heavy and light artillery attacks on residential neighborhoods on Sunday and Monday, resulting in the deaths of at least 60 civilians, including 7 women, in the Abu Shouk al-Hilla neighborhood in the western sector.

Meanwhile, medical sources affirmed to Darfur 24 that the Military Medical Hospital is witnessing an unprecedented overcrowding of wounded patients as a result of the militia’s continuous artillery shelling of El-Fashir since the beginning of this week, noting the deaths of a number of the wounded.