Sudan’s army has launched a major offensive in the capital, Khartoum, to regain ground held by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), military sources have told Al Jazeera.
The army carried out air raids on Thursday against RSF positions in the capital and north of Khartoum in its biggest such assault in months.
Reporting from Khartoum, Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan said the army has taken control of three main bridges, including two that connect the city of Omdurman with the capital.
Its forces have “been advancing towards … the presidential palace where there has also been heavy fighting reported”, said Morgan.
The army attacked several military sites belonging to the RSF, the sources said, and the Sudanese Air Force was carrying out several flights over Khartoum.
At least four people were killed and 14 wounded during artillery shelling on Thursday morning by the RSF, which targeted residential neighbourhoods in the Karari Governorate, north of Omdurman, according to Khartoum State Health Ministry spokesman Mohamed Ibrahim.
The injured were transferred to al-No Hospital, he said. (Agencies)
