Residents in an affluent district in Sudan's capital feared trouble after finding their neighbor was a commander from a paramilitary force protesters blamed for cracking down on them in the past.
"We knew a day like this would come," said Motasim, who lives a few buildings from Abdelrahim Dagalo, deputy leader of the"It's very dangerous because he lives among us," said Motasim, a resident of Khartoum's Al-Riyadh district, which lies near the airport where smoke now billows into the sky.
From a vantage point in his home, Motasim said that earlier on Tuesday he could see RSF troops aiming anti-aircraft missiles from the street below. Residents from other districts said shops had been looted and people ejected from homes by armed men.
"They've been asking people for water and food but in some places they've told them to evacuate so they can move in," she said, adding that she had kept the lights off in her home for most of the time to save generator fuel and avoid attention. "Horror is everywhere, the sounds of the artillery and the aimless shooting causing injuries among civilians," said Sajda Gafer El-Tayeb Mustafa, a resident of Bahri, next to Khartoum.
Sudan's doctors union said 34 hospitals in the capital had either been forced to close or would have to shut soon due to a lack of electricity and water or because they have been damaged by gunfire or artillery.
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