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According to Daily Sabah, the Sudanese army accused the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of firing on a Turkish evacuation plane. It was landing at Wadi Seidna Airport outside Khartoum on Friday.
The army said the shooting wounded a crew member and damaged fuel.
The Turkish Defence Ministry reported no injuries from small arms fire on its military jet.
The ministry assured that the C-130 military aircraft safely landed and no one injured. But the plane has parked for necessary precautions.”
RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo denied shooting at the plane and called the army “spreading lies.”
“Our forces have remained strictly committed to the humanitarian truce that we agreed upon since midnight, and it is not true that we targeted any aircraft in the sky of Wadi Seidna in Omdurman,” the Dagalo RSF said.
“How can our forces attack a Turkish evacuation plane while it was us who protected the mission in recent days and helped evacuations in all districts of the capital?” it asked.
Turkey has been evacuating its citizens from the country where its army and the paramilitary RSF have been fighting since April 15.
The two factions clash when the Sudanese army demands RSF’s complete integration.
The relentless fighting killed over 512 people, wounded thousands, and left millions stranded in homes without electricity or food.
1,338 Turks among the 2,000 Sudanese evacuated. A 400M military cargo plane brought 170 people from Port Sudan to Istanbul early Friday.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the UN, US, and Saudi Arabia have called for negotiations to end the ceasefire.
On Monday, Saudi Arabia and the US mediated a truce between the two warring groups, but several media outlets reported fighting.
