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24 children, 9 women killed in Darfur clashes
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CAIRO, 30 April 2022, (TON): A Sudanese doctor’s union said that 24 children and nine women were among dozens killed in tribal clashes over the weekend between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan’s western Darfur region.
The Sudan’s Doctors Committee also said “23 elderly and 144 men were also killed.”
Khamis Abdalla Abkar, the provincial governor of West Darfur province, said “the death toll had surpassed 200.”
The committee, an independent doctors association, said that the actual death toll may be higher, as the count does not include casualties that were not subjected to autopsy or were not even reported.
The fighting, some of the deadliest in the region in recent years, grew out of the killing of two Arab herdsmen just outside Kreinik, 80 kilometers east of Genena, the provincial capital of West Darfur.
Large numbers of Arab militias, known as janjaweed, then reportedly stormed the town in retaliation early Sunday with heavy weapons.
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