PORT SUDAN: Paramilitary artillery shelling of a crowded market and nearby displaced people´s camp in Sudan´s Darfur region killed six people on Sunday, local health volunteers said.

The camp, Abu Shouk, is on the edge of the North Darfur state capital, El-Fasher, which paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have besieged since last May as part of the nearly two-year-old war against Sudan´s army.

The shelling “resulted in the deaths of six unarmed civilians so far, with other injuries yet to be counted,” said the local Emergency Response Room, one of hundreds of volunteer groups across war-torn Sudan helping to evacuate wounded, staff soup kitchens and maintain health services.

“This attack… struck the crowded market while civilians were shopping for Ramadan necessities,” the committee added, blaming the RSF. The Muslim holy fasting month of Ramazan, which started on Saturday in Sudan, comes as the northeast African country continues to grapple with war, starvation and displacement.