The fuel system of a Turkish evacuation plane was damaged by gunfire from Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Friday as it was landing at Wadi Seyidna airfield outside of Khartoum, according to the Sudanese army.
In two weeks of fighting between the army and its foe, tens of thousands of people have fled and hundreds of deaths have occurred.
Fighting flared out in several areas of the capital Khartoum on Friday, according to eyewitnesses and live TV broadcasts, despite the two sides agreeing late on Thursday to extend a cease-fire by 72 hours to allow for humanitarian access.
The defense ministry of Turkey confirmed that a Turkish evacuation plane had been shot upon, but said that no injuries had been reported. The RSF claimed that no shots were fired at the aircraft and accused the army of "spreading lies."
It is untrue that we intentionally targeted any aircraft in the sky over Wadi Seyidna in Omdurman, the RSF stated in a statement. "Our forces have remained strictly committed to the humanitarian truce that we agreed upon since midnight," the RSF said.
The plane, according to the Sudanese army, was being fixed.
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