Nurse Nawal Khalil was caring for patients when fighters from the RSF militia took over besieged al-Fashir on Sunday.
They killed six wounded soldiers and civilians in their beds – some of them women, she tells The Guardian.
I don't know what happened to my other patients. I had to flee when they stormed the hospital.
During the escape, she was shot in the foot and thigh, she says. Despite that, she continued walking for a day.
Another nurse at the same hospital told the British newspaper that she had seen at least eight patients shot to death.
Killed the son
Thousands of civilians have been trapped in areas controlled by the RSF and allied militias since al-Fashir's fall. According to The Guardian, many of them are former soldiers from the Sudanese army and allied groups that have fought a bloody civil war against the RSF since 2023. Survivors who have made it to government-controlled Tawila, around 55 kilometers west of al-Fashir, tell how they were held captive for days by militias who demanded hefty ransoms for their release.
Three survivors describe brutal scenes to the AFP news agency via satellite phone from Tawila.
"They took my phone, even searched my underwear and killed my 16-year-old son," says Hayat, a mother of five, about the moment when RSF men entered the family's house.
Mohamed, a father of four, describes mutilated bodies on the streets and how he was beaten with sticks and robbed during his escape. Another witness, Hussein, gives a similar testimony:
"The situation in al-Fashir is terrible. Dead bodies in the streets and no one to bury them," he told AFP.
“Cut off my head”
28-year-old Adam Yagoub claims to have narrowly escaped capture by militiamen.
"They wanted to cut my head off with a knife," he tells The Guardian.
There were 18 of us who left al-Fashir together, but only eight made it to Tawila.
Yagoub claims to have seen a large number of dead bodies at a "fake well" set up by RSF.
"It's a trap. People walk all day without water and when they reach it (the well), the militias are waiting there," he says.
