Cairo, Oct 2 (AP) At least 91 civilians were killed in Sudan’s besieged city of el-Fasher in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, within 10 days last month, the United Nations said on Thursday.

The series of attacks was the latest in the intensified fighting between the army and rival paramilitaries seeking to control the city.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said on Thursday that the city’s Daraja Oula neighbourhood has been repeatedly attacked during RSF artillery shelling, drone strikes and ground incursions between Sept. 19 and 29.

Turk called for urgent action to prevent “large-scale, ethnically-driven attacks and atrocities in El Fasher." In its latest attack in the city, the RSF fired a missile that killed 16 people, including three women, and injured 21

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