Multiple explosions Rock Port Sudan as RSF Target Key City

Explosions were heard in the Sudanese city of Port Sudan if a paramilitary force was aimed at the de-Facto capital of the country’s military government for the third consecutive day.

Thick black smoke could be seen at the dawn on the skyline of the previously safe city where thousands of people who flee the biennial war were sought refuge.

Flights have been canceled after drones have reached the only functioning international airport and a hotel near the current presidential palace, report reports.

“I see a huge cloud and fire going like everywhere in the city … and I now also heard that they were two loud pony. It looks pretty apocalyptic,” a journalist, Cristina Karrer, told the BBC.

One drone was aimed at the civil part of the airport of Port Sudan and another hit the main army base in the center of the city, witnesses told the AFP press agency.

A third drone hit “a fuel depot near the southern harbor”, in the densely populated city center, where UN officials, diplomats, aid organizations and the army of Sudan have moved from the capital Khartoum, AFP reported.

A large hotel near the residence of army chef Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan was also hit in the attack, the witness said.

The army blamed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for the drone attacks that started on Sunday. The RSF still has to comment on the attacks.

Prior to the attacks on Sunday, Port Sudan had avoided bombing and was considered one of the safest places in the war destroyed by war.

The paramilitary group has increasingly familiar with drones to reclaim its lost areas, including Khartem, who was taken back by the army in March.

The two years of fighting between the army and the RSF killed thousands, forced millions from their houses and created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

Both the army and RSF are accused of war crimes.