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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- It was a funeral no one had envisaged: Sadig Abbas' lifeless body was lowered hastily into a shallow unmarked grave in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, not long after dawn.
It was a funeral no one had envisaged: Sadig Abbas’ lifeless body was lowered hastily into a shallow unmarked grave in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, not long after dawn. Nearly four months of violent street battles between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have made funerals a near impossibility in Khartoum. Amid the chaos, residents and local medical groups say corpses lie rotting in the capital’s streets, marooned by a conflict that shows few signs of easing.
There is limited data on the casualties in Sudan. The country's health minister, Haitham Mohammed Ibrahim, said in June that the conflict killed over 3,000 people, but there has been no update.
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