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Drone strike kills five in Sudan capital

By AFP
May 03, 2026
Large plumes of smoke and fire rising from a fuel depot after what military sources say was a Rapid Support Forces (RSF) drone attack in Port Sudan targeting fuel storage facilities in Sudan on May 5, 2025.—Reuters/File
Large plumes of smoke and fire rising from a fuel depot after what military sources say was a Rapid Support Forces (RSF) drone attack in Port Sudan targeting fuel storage facilities in Sudan on May 5, 2025.—Reuters/File

KHARTOUM: A paramilitary drone killed five civilians on Saturday when it hit a vehicle in greater Khartoum, a rights group said, the second such attack in the Sudanese capital this week.

Drone attacks by both Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) -- which have been at war since April 2023 -- have intensified across the country in recent months, at times killing dozens of people in a single strike. Emergency Lawyers, a Sudanese legal advocacy group documenting abuses during the conflict, said an RSF drone struck a civilian vehicle on the Jammouiya Triangle road Saturday morning in southern Omdurman