Reuters quoted a statement posted on the Sudanese Armed Forces Facebook page, that the Air Force called, on Saturday, on citizens to stay in their homes because it will conduct a full survey of the whereabouts of the Rapid Support Forces.
A witness told Reuters late on Saturday that he heard explosions in the vicinity of the airport in central Khartoum.
Witnesses told the agency that the warplanes bombed the huge Rapid Support Camp in the Saliha area, south of Omdurman.
And renewed gunfire in Khartoum and in Khartoum North, while heavy weapons were heard near the General Command of the Sudanese army in the capital, after the dispute between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army turned into an armed clash, on Saturday.
In light of the exchange of accusations between the two sides, the Sudanese army commander decided to end the assignment of army officers in the “rebel” Rapid Support Forces, according to what the Sudanese General Intelligence Service announced.
The preliminary committee of the Sudan Doctors Syndicate told Reuters, on Saturday, that at least 25 people were killed and 183 wounded in the clashes taking place across the country.
The commission was unable to determine whether all the victims were civilians.
On Saturday, clashes erupted between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the armed forces, in an apparent struggle for control due to differences over the country’s faltering measures to move towards elections in the wake of a military coup.
