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Hundreds said shot or disappeared after Sudanese city falls to paramilitaries

Fighters riding camels rounded up a couple of hundred men near the Sudanese city of al-Fashir over the weekend and brought them to a reservoir, shouting racial slurs before starting to shoot, according to a man who said he was among them.

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