She described it as a looting and burning homes as shells rained down and drones flew overhead.

She lost track of most of her family as she fled. "I don't know what's become of them, my mother, father, siblings, my grandmother, I came here with strangers," she said one of six survivors who told Reuters of arson and executions in the raid.

The Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group - two years into its conflict with Sudan's army  seized the massive camp in North Darfur a week ago in an attack that the United Nations says left at least 300 people dead and forced 400 000 to flee.

The RSF did not respond to a request for comment, but has denied accusations of atrocities and said the camp was being used as a base by forces loyal to the army. Humanitarian groups have denounced the raid as a targeted attack on civilians already facing famine.

Najlaa Ahmed managed to get her children to safety in Tawila a town 60 km (40 miles) from Zamzam controlled by a neutral rebel group - the third time, she said, she had been forced to flee the RSF in a matter of months.

She said she watched seven people die of hunger and thirst, and others succumb to their injuries on her latest journey.

The RSF has posted videos of its second-in-command, Abdelrahim Dagalo, promising to provide displaced people with food and shelter in the camp where famine was determined in August.

BODIES FOUND

More than 280 000 people have sought refuge in Tawila according to the General Coordination for Displaced People and Refugees advocacy group, on top of the half a million that have arrived since the war broke out in April 2023.

Speaking from al-Fashir - the capital of North Darfur 15 km north of Zamzam which the RSF is trying to take from the army one man who asked not to be named said he had found the bodies of 24 people killed in an attack on a religious school, some of them lined up.

"They started entering people's houses, looting they killed some people . After this people fled, running in different directions. There were fires. They had soldiers burning buildings to create more terror."

Another man, an elder in the camp, said the RSF had killed 14 people at close range in a mosque near his home.

"People who are scared always go to the mosque to seek refuge, but they went into every mosque and shot them," he said.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports.

One video verified by Reuters showed soldiers yelling at a group of older men and young men outside a mosque, interrogating them about a supposed military base.

Other videos verified by Reuters showed RSF soldiers shooting an unarmed man as others lay on the ground. One showed armed men celebrating as they stood around a group of dead bodies.

The RSF has said such videos are fake.

--Reuters--