However, the Sudanese Tribune newspaper reports that the death toll could exceed 150, due to the intensity and the area targeted by the attack, which affected a vegetable market, a fish market and residential areas.

The non-governmental organization Network of Sudanese Doctors (RMS) described the attack as a massacre against defenseless civilians.

RMS condemned the action and stressed that in recent months Sennar has been the scene of the worst fighting between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitaries, who have already retaken part of the control of this southeastern region of the country.

Sennar is considered a strategic town as it connects with the capital and the southern region of Kordofan.

Since mid-April of last year, this nation has been plunged into an internal war, after contradictions flared up over power issues between the army chief Abdel Fatah al-Burhan and the leader of the paramilitary RSF, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.

In Sudan, where a military coup d’état occurred in 2019 and another in 2021, a conflict broke out in which thousands of civilians were killed, including some 15,000 in the West Darfur region alone.

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