Dubai: The first images showed blood stains on the sand and bodies . Now, fresh satellite images suggest the next step of a large-scale massacre of civilians is under way in the Sudanese city of El Fasher, which fell to a paramilitary force 11 days ago after an 18-month siege.

The images, analysed by the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab, show what appear to be mass burials being conducted this week in El Fasher, in Darfur – trenches, disturbed earth, and more apparent bodies.

“We’re seeing a velocity of killing that can only be compared to the Rwandan genocide,” Yale lab executive director Nathaniel Raymond told CNN this week, saying sources had told his lab that thousands of people were dead.

“We are looking at a mass casualty event that could exceed in a wee

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