Villagers offer harrowing accounts of one of the deadliest attacks in Sudan's civil war
'They were firing at everything and in every direction,' the mother of four said. 'In an instant, all of us in the village were fleeing for safety.' Many people were gunned down in their houses or while trying to flee. At least 200 people were killed, including many women and children, in the community of straw homes, according to a rights group tracking Sudan's civil war .
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