Volunteers assist families in Khartoum with war dead reburials ...Middle East

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Teams clad in white hazmat suits search vacant lots where families hastily buried their dead during intense fighting.

“We’re finding graves everywhere—in front of homes, inside schools and mosques,” he said.

The southern neighbourhood of Al-Azhari became a burial ground as clashes between the army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) raged.

The army reclaimed Khartoum in March after a fierce offensive, allowing families to finally seek proper burials.

“I had only sent her out to buy shoes when she died,” she said.

Now, Adam watched as volunteers prepared her daughter’s body for reburial at Al-Andalus cemetery.

“It’s painful,” Adam said, “but to honour the dead is to give them a proper burial.”

Former US envoy Tom Perriello estimated up to 150,000 deaths in the war’s first year alone.

Of these, 26,000 were linked to violence.

Zein al-Abdeen confirmed 317 bodies were exhumed from that location.

So far, 2,000 have been reburied properly.

Many families still do not know where their loved ones are buried.

Unclaimed bodies are documented by authorities for future identification.

“We’re moving the bodies so it can serve its original purpose,” he said.

Before the war, the city housed nine million people, but 3.5 million were displaced.

Much of Khartoum remains without power, water, or functioning hospitals. - AFP

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