Paramilitary Fighters Massacre More Than 100 Civilians, Doctors Group Says

Paramilitary forces killed more than 100 civilians in an attack on a city in southern Sudan on Thursday, according to an association of doctors, in the latest accusation of a large-scale atrocity of the country’s civil war.Communication with people in the city, Nahud, was largely cut off starting on Thursday, and the group’s claim could not be independently verified.Al Hadath, a Saudi news channel, said that 230 civilians had been killed, while Al Jazeera reported 19 dead and 37 wounded.

The paramilitary fighters, called the Rapid Support Forces, said on Thursday that they had attacked Nahud, which had been held by the Sudanese military along a highway connecting territory it holds with Darfur — a western region that has become a stronghold for the Rapid Support Forces.At least 542 civilians have been killed in the region in just three weeks, the U.N.human rights chief, Volker Türk, said on Thursday, adding that the real toll is likely much higher.

“The horror unfolding in Sudan knows no bounds,” he said in a statement about the war.“My fears are all the greater given the ominous warning by the R.S.F.

of ‘bloodshed’ ahead of imminent battles.”The Sudanese military drove Rapid Support Forces fighters out of Khartoum, the country’s capital, in March, but since then the paramilitary group has declared its own government in the areas that it controls, and pressed a major offensive to seize all of Darfur.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe....