A massive fire broke out on Wednesday near a military complex containing an arms factory in southern Khartoum that Sudan's army has been battling to defend against an attack by a rival faction, eyewitnesses said.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces , in the eighth week of a power struggle with the army, attacked the Yarmouk complex on Tuesday, witnesses said. The group on Wednesday posted a video in which it claimed to have taken over a warehouse filled with weapons and ammunition at the site.
Due to the proximity of fuel and gas depots, "any explosion could destroy residents and the whole area", he said. The RSF quickly seized swathes of the capital after war erupted in Khartoum on April 15. Army air strikes and artillery fire have not dislodged them, but the RSF may face a challenge restocking with ammunition and fuel as the conflict drags on.
Sudan's health ministry has recorded at least 780 civilian deaths as a direct result of the fighting. Hundreds more have been killed in the city of El Geneina in West Darfur. Medical officials say many bodies remain uncollected or unrecorded.
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