Sudan’s military eminent has ordered an investigation into allegations that his troops performed common atrocities later recapturing the capital of Gezira circumstance from their paramilitary competitors.

Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s advance comes later common fear that civilians – together with overseas nationals – have been killed later the seizure of Wad Madani.

Neighbouring South Sudan stated on Tuesday that it had summoned Sudan’s ambassador to protest in opposition to “the loss of lives among our innocent citizens”.

Sudan has been ravaged through struggle since April 2023, when combating poor out between the military and the Speedy Help Forces (RSF).

Wad Madani, which is 87 miles (140km) south of the capital, Khartoum, fell to the RSF a few hour in the past. The army regained regulate of it on Saturday.

The town serves as a strategic crossroads, connecting a number of states thru key provide highways. It is usually the nearest main the town to Khartoum.

A Sudanese rights workforce accused the army of happening a rampage, killing a minimum of 13 population in Camp Taiba, a village about 20km away.

The UN’s humanitarian eminent in Sudan, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, stated she used to be deeply keen on experiences of retaliatory assaults in opposition to civilians in Gezira “based on alleged affiliation or ethnicity”.

The USA particular envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello known as the experiences “appalling” and instructed the military and allied teams to research and book the ones accountable responsible.

Gen Burhan stated he had arrange a committee to research the alleged killings in Camp Taiba, and has requested it to file again inside a day.

He didn’t remark concerning the issues raised through South Sudan, and whether or not the investigation would center of attention on alleged atrocities in different places in Gezira.

South Sudan’s overseas ministry stated that it had won a “comprehensive report” from its embassy in Sudan “detailing the unfortunate events that have resulted in the loss of lives among our innocent citizens, who maintain a non-combatant status”.

The army has prior to now accused the RSF of hiring South Sudanese as “mercenaries” to struggle on its facet.

Social media movies of diverse incidents, together with one appearing a person in civilian clothes being thrown over a bridge and nearest shot at through a bunch of guys, had been broadly shared on-line.

BBC Check has showed the video used to be filmed alongside the Hantoub bridge over the Blue Nile river.

We’ve got matched key components within the video together with the railings and the portray at the railings as visible within the video to previous movies filmed on the bridge.

One of the crucial males concerned within the incident, and who’s wearing a Sudanese flag, is dressed in clothes with an emblem worn through the al-Bara’a bin Malik Brigade which has been combating along the Sudanese military in Khartoum and neighbouring states.

Two alternative movies filmed in different places display a minimum of 30 our bodies of guys in civilian clothes laid out on a farmland upcoming to a wall.

BBC Check has established, thru related gadgets visible within the video with satellite tv for pc imagery, that the movies have been filmed at a location north-west of Wad Madani only some metres from the place the military seems to have ambushed RSF opponents.

It’s not sunny how the boys died and whether or not they have been killed prior to the our bodies have been collected there.

It is usually now not imaginable to spot them nor whether or not they have been affiliated to any of the combating events, as it’s ordinary for armed opponents to not put on uniforms.

Movies of the ambush, bulky alternate of fireside, and the aftermath also are circulating.

The Sudanese defense force on Tuesday condemned what it known as “individual violations” in some portions of Gezira circumstance, and promised that the ones accountable could be held responsible.

All sides had been accused of atrocities within the 20-month-long war.

The RSF used to be itself accused of wearing out retaliatory assaults in Gezira following the defection in their commander Abu Aqla Kaikal in October utmost hour.

Kaikal used to be closely concerned within the operation that resulted in the military wrestling again regulate of Wad Madani.

Spare reporting through Yussuf Abdullahi, BBC Tracking.