Shock kills mother of girl thrown into fire in East Jebel Marra, Darfur

The mother of a five year-old girl who burned to death in an attack by militiamen on Dobo El Jadida village in East Jebel Marra, died on Monday. Um El Kheir Saleh Hamed died on Monday, after entering into a shock, when she witnessed her five year-old daughter being thrown into a burning house by militiamen. On Saturday, a group of gunmen “with foreign appearances” had attacked the village. They torched the houses, raped young women, killed three elderly villagers, and threw four children into the burning houses. The children all burned to death. The entire village was destroyed. A villager told Radio Dabanga that seven people sustained injuries, some of them seriously: El Sheikh Ibrahim Khater (75), Yousef Saleh Musa (52), Fatima Haroun (50), Hussein Ishag Omar (48), Hawa Abdel Razeg (45), Aisha Yahya (35), and Abakar Hamid Adam. Displaced from the Naivasha camp near Shangil Tobaya, over the border with North Darfur reported to Radio Dabanga that the militiamen have been continuing their attacks. “The residents of Naivasha and Shadad camps do no dare to leave the camps anymore to collect firewood or go out to work. The traffic on the roads between Shangil Tobaya, Landa, Sharfa, and El Fasher, as well as other roads where animals are used as a means of transport, has come to a standstill.” File photo: A Darfuri village in flames (bashirwatch.org) Related: Children burned to death in attack in East Jebel Marra, Darfur (14 September 2014)