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As the fighting between the regular army of Sudan and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces entered its second day in capital Khartoum, the Sudanese Doctors Union has reported that 56 civilians have.
Explosions sounded at dawn on Sunday near the Sports City, south of the capital Khartoum, in light of ambiguity about the field conditions in the capital. Sudan's Central Committee of Doctors said at least 56 civilians had been killed and about 600 wounded across the country as a result of the fighting. Sudanese Red Crescent expressed its readiness to evacuate civilians from the airport neighborhood if security conditions are available. The United States said it had communicated with influential countries in Sudan for an immediate cessation of hostilities.
CAIRO: Simmering tensions between Sudan’s ruling factions reached breaking point on Saturday when trucks with mounted machine guns and tanks began rolling through the streets of Khartoum, a city of 5.2 million people, and airstrikes and artillery fire bombarded neighborhoods from all sides, starting fires and wreaking destruction. Fighting soon spread across the country, from