SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Independent – At least 24 people killed in attack on Sudan camp for displaced people
The Independent reports that at least 24 have been killed after an attack on Kerending camp of displaced people in West Darfur, according to the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID).
“The Arab tribesman’s people came to the camp and started shooting and killing and burning,” Ashraf Eissa, a UNAMID spokesperson, said.
Eissa added that “relatives went to the hospital and threatened hospital staff at gunpoint and destroyed the blood bank,” with a police officer shot dead after trying to intervene at the hospital.
At least 17 people were also wounded in the violence which occurred just east of el-Geneina, with at least 10 villages reportedly burned.
A statement from the non-Arab Masalit ethnic group has put the death toll at more than 50 people, although that figure has not been independently confirmed.
According to Eisa, Masalit tribespeople have fled to the city, mountains and Chad.