According to the U.N. More than one million have fled al-Fashir during an 18-month siege by the RSF,

An estimated quarter of a million civilians remain, and there are fears of mass reprisals if the city falls.

The residents described avoiding drones by limiting movements and large gatherings during daytime and not using lights after dark.

According to Reuters, at one shelter in al-Fashir’s Abu Taleb school at least 18 people were killed in the week from September 30 by bombardment, a drone attack and an RSF raid, said Abdallah, who visited the site before and after the attacks.

Footage verified by Reuters showed the school’s shattered ceilings and scarred walls. On the school grounds, it showed a dead body lying outside a shipping container buried in the ground to create a shelter, with sandbags around the entrance.

The RSF and its allies have been blamed for waves of ethnically driven violence in Darfur during the war, with the U.S. determining last year that they had committed genocide.

Its leadership denies ordering such attacks and says rogue soldiers will face justice.

According to Reuters, on October 10-11 another displacement shelter, Dar al-Arqam, located on university grounds that also house a mosque, suffered repeated strikes.

The centre’s manager, Hashim Bosh, recorded 57 dead including 17 children, among them three babies.

Reuters added that the footage also showed what appear to be 10 bodies covered in sheets at the site, a child-sized body covered by a small prayer rug, and several bodies, mangled and uncovered, inside the container.