A drone strike killed at least 30 people at a displacement shelter in Sudan's El-Fasher on Saturday, activists said, as the Rapid Support Forces intensifies attacks on the besieged western city.
The resistance committee for El-Fasher, the North Darfur state capital, said the RSF hit the Dar al-Arqam displacement centre on the grounds of a university.
Bodies remained trapped in underground shelters, the committee said in a statement, describing it as a "massacre" and calling on the international community to intervene.
"Children, women and the elderly were killed in cold blood, and many were completely burned," AFP quoted it as saying.
"The situation has gone beyond disaster and genocide inside the city, and the world remains silent."
The local resistance committees are activists who coordinate aid and document atrocities in the Sudan conflict.
The RSF has been at war with the regular army since April 2023. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced millions and pushed nearly 25 million into acute hunger.
El-Fasher, the last state capital in the vast region of Darfur to elude the RSF's grasp, has become the latest strategic front in the war as the paramilitaries attempt to consolidate power in the west.
The United Nations rights chief said Friday that he was "appalled" by the RSF's recent killing of civilians in the city, including what appeared to be ethnically motivated summary executions.
"They continue instead to kill, injure, and displace civilians, and to attack civilian objects, including... hospitals and mosques, with total disregard for international law," High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said.
"This must end."
Activists say the city has become "an open-air morgue" for starved civilians.
Nearly 18 months into the RSF's siege, El-Fasher -- home to 400,000 trapped civilians -- has run out of nearly everything.
