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Eleven displaced people killed in attack blamed on RSF in Western Darfur

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Eleven displaced people were killed and several others injured, mainly women and children, in an attack in Hajar Snakit, Western Darfur, according to Babaker Hamdeen, health minister for the Darfur regional administration. The official blamed the attack on the Rapid Support Forces and condemned the targeting of displacement camps.

At least eleven displaced people were killed and dozens more injured in an attack on a town in Western Darfur, Sudan, a Darfur regional government official accused on Sunday, according to Sudan Tribune. The attack was attributed to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which are fighting the Sudanese army.

The town targeted is in Western Darfur state, near the border with Chad. The victims were people displaced by the conflict, according to the regional official cited by Sudan Tribune.

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