Sudan’s government says the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group has killed at least 2,000 people in the three days since it seized control of the city of El Fasher in the Darfur region. This comes as the World Health Organization says it’s appalled by reports that 460 patients and their companions were slaughtered at the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher. On Wednesday, U.N. refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said tens of thousands of displaced people have been arriving at Tawila, a refuge for civilians fleeing the violence. They described widespread ethnically and politically motivated killings and indiscriminate attacks, particularly affecting the most vulnerable.

Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet: “We have accounts of people with disabilities who were — who were executed, who were killed, as they were unable to flee. But we also hear people that are trying to leave the city and manage to get out of the city, but on the way, they’re caught up and they are also being shot.”