The residents of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, are taking refuge in their homes as fighting between forces loyal to military leaders vying for control of the city intensified Monday.
Across Khartoum, shops and gas stations have closed their doors while power and water disruptions caused severe shortages across the capital and adjacent cities.
One citizen told CNN that a projectile struck their home early Monday, damaging the wall and leaving family members worried for their lives. Other photographs shared with CNN showed a large hole in the wall of a bedroom in a house in Al Riyadh neighborhood after a projectile hit Saturday.
Patients and doctors were injured after a projectile struck the Al Sha’ab teaching hospital, two doctors told CNN. Artillery fire put Al Sha’ab and Khartoum teaching hospitals “completely out of service,” as medical staff, patients, children and their companions remained “in a state of panic and fear,” the doctors union said.
Sudanese woman, Amal Abdallah, 28, who resides in the United States and is in Khartoum to spend time with her family, said she is now sheltering at her family residence while everything is “collapsing.”
“The artillery was really, really heavy these past three days, we can hear planes by our house and gunfire,” Abdallah told CNN.
Abdallah and her mother are both asthmatic and said they will soon run out of medicine supplies.
My inhaler is about to finish and I do not know if I can get supply or not, the gunfire is just too much outside,” Abdallah said.
Duaa Osman, a mother-of-four who is currently breastfeeding her 3-month-old baby, says she and her family have been stuck at home with no water for two days trying to hide the sound of gunfire from her frightened children.
“The sounds of bullets and artillery over our head is terrifying. I try to increase the volume on the TV as much as possible to distract my kids but … there’s no way to cover up those sounds at 5 a.m. in the morning.”
