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Sudan rescuers say air strike killed 23 in Khartoum market

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Sudanese wait outside a hospital for medical check-up in Tokar in the Read Sea State following recent heavy flooding in eastern Sudan on October 10, 2024. [AFP]

A Sudanese network of volunteer rescuers said on Sunday the military carried out an air strike a day earlier on a marketplace in Khartoum, leaving 23 people dead.

The market is near one of the main camps in the Sudanese capital, where the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been fighting the military as part of a civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people.

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