According to the Yale researchers, the new satellite images have given them reason to believe that a large proportion of the population of al-Fashir may be “dead, captured or hidden.”
At least 31 clusters of objects resembling human bodies were identified in the images between Monday and Friday, around residential areas, universities and military facilities.
"There are clear signs that mass killings are continuing," the researchers say in the report.
Condemns the massacres
Yale researchers have previously said they have evidence that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary force went from house to house after they captured al-Fashir in western Sudan on Sunday. About 2,000 civilians were killed, according to forces loyal to the Sudanese army.
In a statement, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) condemned the massacres and killings that have taken place in and around al-Fashir over the past week. At the same time, it warned that “a large number of people” remain in grave danger and are being prevented by RSF from leaving the city. Only 5,000 people have so far managed to reach Tawila, 70 kilometers to the west, where the organization operates.
“Where are all the missing people who have already survived months of starvation and violence in al-Fashir? The most likely, if terrifying, answer is that they are being killed, hindered and hunted as they try to escape,” said Michel Olivier Lacharite, head of MSF’s emergency operations.
Cut off city
According to the UN, more than 65,000 people have fled al-Fashir, but tens of thousands are still trapped in the city, which is cut off from the outside world. About 260,000 people were in the city before the RSF's final assault.
The RSF took control of the city after months of siege in the brutal civil war that has raged in Sudan since 2023.
