According to the organization Emergency Lawyers, which has examined both sides of the war, it was the regular army's air force that launched the attack. It is described as an "indiscriminate air raid" against a marketplace called Tora in northern Darfur, where "hundreds of civilians" were killed and dozens more injured.
The events in war-torn Sudan are consistently difficult to report on and verify. Currently, all telephone and network communication in Darfur is also down.
Both parties to the war – the regular army and the paramilitary RSF militia – are accused of numerous abuses that have affected the civilian population.
Emergency Lawyers do not specify when the attack is supposed to have taken place. According to a statement from the RSF, which controls most of Darfur, the attack is said to have occurred on Monday. The RSF accuses the army of having carried out a "massacre".
In the war in Sudan, tens of thousands of people have been killed and more than twelve million driven into flight in a humanitarian disaster considered the worst ongoing in the world. Darfur in the country's western part has been particularly hard hit, with many alarms about attacks on civilians.
The regular air force has a significant advantage in the air with its military aircraft, but the RSF forces have used advanced drones.
