APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) At least 15 Ethiopians have been killed and more than a hundred others injured in crossfires as fighting between Sudan’s armed factions continues in the capital, Khartoum and other cities, according to members of the Ethiopian community in Khartoum have disclosed.
“Half of them were killed in a war in the neighborhood of “Dem” where Ethiopians reside in large numbers,” members of the community told APA on Saturday on condition of anonymity.
All the dead and injured Ethiopians were victims of the fighting in and around Khartoum, they said further noting that an Ethiopian couple lost their lives by an attack.
Even though the government of Ethiopia has geographical and strategic advantage to withdraw its citizens from Khartoum or other cities using in land transport, it remains reluctant to act accordingly, they said.
They said a number of unidentified bodies believed to be that of Ethiopians have been discovered.
The Ethiopian embassy in Khartoum has come under criticism for apparently igonring the complaints of Ethiopians trapped in the fighting and is accused of providing no sufficient help to them.
Since last weekend major cities in Sudan have turned into battlefields as fighting rages on between Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF).
Sudan has been suffering a political crisis since Sudanese army chief, Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan declared martial law in October 2021 and dissolved the previous joint military-civilian government.
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