“Our humanitarian colleagues tell us that there were also reports yesterday that at least 20 people were killed by heavy artillery fire in Omdurman in Khartoum State, in an area controlled by the Sudanese Armed Forces,” Dujarric quoted OCHA.

Sudan's military has been accused of carrying out an air strike on a marketplace in the western region of Darfur in which more than 100 people were reportedly killed. The Emergency Lawyers rights group described the bombing in Kabkabiya town on Monday, the weekly market day, as a "horrific massacre".

Two days of rising violence have led to the deaths of more than 100 people in Sudan as the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) strike civilian areas, witnesses and war monitoring groups said.

A Sudanese military air strike on a market in North Darfur killed more than 100 people on Monday, a pro-democracy lawyers' group said Tuesday, in a war marked by claims of atrocities on all sides. The Emergency Lawyers said Monday's air strike also left hundreds injured in Kabkabiya,

Sudanese military aircraft launched a series of air strikes on several towns in Sudan’s Darfur region on Monday, killing dozens of civilians, witnesses and activists said. The attacks are the latest in an escalating campaign of air strikes by the army on towns and villages controlled by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group.