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The #UN migration agency said about 35,000 people have fled #elFasher, mostly to rural areas around it, since Sunday.
UN #refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic & politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee, & others shot as they tried to escape.
“The Janjaweed showed no mercy for anyone,” said Umm Amena, mother of 4 children who fled the city Monday after 2 days, using a Sudanese term for the #RSF.
Amena was among 3 dozen people, mostly women & children, who were detained for a day by RSF fighters in an abandoned house close to the Saudi Hospital in #elFasher.
AP spoke w/ Amena & 4 others who managed to flee el-Fasher arriving exhausted & dehydrated early Tues in nearby town Tawila, ~60km west of el-Fasher, which hosts >650k #displaced.
The #UN migration agency said about 35,000 people have fled #elFasher, mostly to rural areas around it, since Sunday.
UN #refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic & politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee, & others shot as they tried to escape.
Witnesses told the AP that #RSF fighters—on foot, riding on camels, or in vehicles—went from house to house, beating & shooting people, including women & children. Many died of gunshot wounds in the streets, some while trying to flee to safety, witnesses said.
“It was a like a killing field,” Tajal-Rahman, a man in his 50s, said over the phone from the outskirts of Tawila. “Bodies everywhere & people bleeding & no one to help them.”
Both Amena and Tajal-Rahman said that #RSF fighters tortured & beat the detainees & shot at least 4 people Monday who later died of wounds. They also sexually assaulted women & girls, they said.
Giulia Chiopris, a pediatrician at a hospital run by the Doctors Without Borders medical group in Tawila, said they received many patients since Oct 18, suffering from injuries related to bombing or gunshots.
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