A Sudanese network of volunteer rescuers said on Sunday the military carried out an air strike a day earlier on a marketplace in Khartoum, leaving 23 people dead.

Volunteer rescuers in Sudan say the army launched a deadly strike on a marketplace in the south of the capital, Khartoum. The army is attempting to wrest back control of the capital from the RSF paramilitaries.

Fierce fighting has raged since Friday around Khartoum, much of which is controlled by the RSF, with the military pounding the centre and south of the city from the air. The military is reportedly advancing towards Khartoum from nearby Omdurman,

Sudanese army air strikes have killed at least 23 people and injured more than 40 others in the south of the capital, Khartoum. Saturday's airstrikes targeted the main camp occupied by paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in southern Khartoum, hitting the central market and a nearby residential area.

A Sudanese network of volunteer rescuers said on Sunday that the military carried out an air strike a day earlier on a marketplace in Khartoum, leaving 23 people dead. The market is near one of the main camps in the Sudanese capital,

"Twenty-three people were confirmed dead and more than 40 others wounded" and transferred to hospital, after "military air strikes on Saturday afternoon on the main market" in southern Khartoum, the youth-led Emergency Response Rooms said in a post on Facebook.

Sudan's army has launched a major offensive against the powerful paramilitary group it is fighting in the country's civil war, targeting areas in the capital it lost at the start of the conflict. In dawn strikes on Thursday, government forces shelled Rapid Support Forces (RSF) bases in the capital Khartoum, and Bahri to its north.

Fierce fighting has raged since Friday around Khartoum, much of which is controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) A Sudanese network of volunteer rescuers said on Sunday the military carried out an air strike a day earlier on a marketplace in Khartoum,