Smoke rose due to clashes in northern Khartoum (Reuters)
A source in the Sudanese army told Al Jazeera that the army forces destroyed - at dawn on Tuesday - 40 combat vehicles on Al-Arda Street in Omdurman, and killed 150 members of the Rapid Support Forces.
The source added that the Rapid Support Forces were seeking to rescue forces besieged in the radio and television building east of the city of Omdurman.
The Sudanese army stated - in a statement issued by it - that it thwarted, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, an attempt by the Rapid Support Forces to escape from a cordon imposed on them by the army in the vicinity of the Al-Mulazemin neighborhood and the headquarters of the Sudanese Radio.
The statement stated that the army forces eliminated most of the fleeing force and destroyed and received most of its equipment and vehicles, indicating that another group of Rapid Support Forces were targeted that tried to support the besieged fighters.
Yesterday, Monday, clashes renewed in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, on the first day of the month of Ramadan, despite international and regional calls to stop hostilities.
Eyewitnesses reported to Anadolu Agency that clashes broke out in Khartoum, Omdurman, Bahri, west and north of the capital.
Witnesses reported that the army carried out attacks on the Rapid Support Forces in the neighborhoods of southern and eastern Khartoum, and in areas north of Bahri city.
For its part, the Sudanese army said in a statement that its forces in the Al-Kadro military area, north of the city of Bahri, destroyed 7 combat vehicles and two fuel trucks belonging to the Rapid Support, confirming the killing of the Rapid Support members accompanying those vehicles.
On Friday, the UN Security Council called for a ceasefire in Sudan during the month of Ramadan, through a draft resolution submitted by Britain and supported by 14 countries, on which Russia abstained, and calls on “all parties to the conflict to seek a sustainable solution to the conflict through dialogue.”
A war has been continuing in Sudan since April 15, 2023 between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces led by Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo (known as Hemedti), leaving about 13,900 people dead and more than 8 million displaced and refugees, according to the United Nations.
Source: Al Jazeera + agencies