A Sudanese military cargo plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in the outskirts of Khartoum on Tuesday evening, killing 46 people and injuring 10 others, the regional government of Khartoum said. The Antonov plane crashed during takeoff from Wadi Seidna air base, a major military base north-west of the capital, Omdurman.
The crash that has happened in the middle of the fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has caused massive damage to nearby homes and led to power cuts in the area. Hearers reported a significant blast in advance of the plane striking into the neighborhood. Emergency workers took injured civilians, including children, to a close-by hospital.
A military source said the plane crashed due to a technical glitch, but the RSF has stepped up its attacks against the army in recent weeks. A day before this, the RSF said it had shot down a Russian-made Ilyushin plane over Nyala, South Darfur. 
The dispute between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF chief Mohamed Hamdan Daglo has ravaged Sudan since April 2023, displacing more than 12 million people and made one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. The accident highlights widening instability as both sides vie for command amid escalating fighting, RSF signing a charter for a parallel administration in rebel-held territory.
The international community is still trying to bring a halt to the fighting, but the war seems to be showing no signs of easing as civilians get caught in the crossfire.
