(MENAFN) At least 7,455 people were forced to flee the besieged city of El-Fasher in western Sudan in a single day due to attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), raising the total displaced to 33,485 over three days, according to reports from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Sudanese authorities, along with UN and international agencies, have accused the RSF of committing “massacres and humanitarian violations” against civilians in El-Fasher, including “summary executions,” arrests, and forced displacement. The attacks began on Sunday after the RSF had maintained a siege on the city for over a year.

The IOM stated that field teams estimated the displacement of an additional 7,455 people on October 28 amid ongoing clashes. Overall, reports indicate that 33,485 individuals were displaced between October 26 and 28. Preliminary figures from October 26–27 had recorded 26,030 displaced, though numbers remain subject to change due to the continuing insecurity and rapid movement of people.

Most displaced residents have sought refuge in rural areas within El-Fasher locality, while others have moved to surrounding towns such as Tawila, Mellit, and Kebkabiya to the west. Prior to the RSF’s incursion, unofficial estimates placed El-Fasher’s population at around 500,000, with roughly one million residents already displaced in previous years.

The El-Fasher Resistance Coordination, a local grassroots committee, reported that “all the wounded and injured inside the Saudi (Maternity) Hospital were collectively executed by Janjaweed militias (RSF) in horrific ways---killed while they were between life and death, at a time when humanity no longer has a place.”

In its Tuesday statement, the committee added that the wounded “were waiting for a helping hand, but mercy vanished before medicine could reach them, and hospitals fell into a terrifying silence, broken only by groans that suddenly ceased.”

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