Witnesses speaking to AFP from southern Khartoum said they heard the 'sound of gunfire and clashes' around the complex, the most important military industrial facility in the country.
KHARTOUM - Sudanese army soldiers and paramilitaries fought for control of a military facility Thursday in Khartoum where a fire raged at an oil and gas facility, witnesses said.
The RSF claimed that soldiers had fled the site, leaving behind large quantities of military equipment and vehicles. Violence has spread across the country, most notably in the western region of Darfur, which is home to around a quarter of Sudan's population and has never recovered from a devastating two-decade war that left hundreds of thousands dead and more than two million displaced.
Plumes of smoke still rose from the site on Thursday morning and could be seen from as far as 10 kilometres away.
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