Latest satellite images show a huge fire that broke out at a fuel storage depot in Sudan’s capital Khartoum is still burning nearly a week later.
The fire broke out on Wednesday last week at the al-Shajra fuel depot in the Yarmouk area during heavy fighting between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces.
It is still not clear how the fire started.
The Yarmouk area has a number of factories, a military complex as well as oil and fuel storage facilities.
There were several fires burning then, but over the past few days it was burning at one location.
Yesterday, Nasa satellites recorded heat signatures from one location which corresponds to the smoke seen rising from the main gas storage tanks in the satellite images from Planet Labs.
The RSF claimed to have taken control of the area and posted a video on Twitter showing its fighters inside a building, with one of them saying they were in a warehouse that stored weapons.
The army hasn’t commented on the fighting there.
Source: bbc.com
