The Sudanese police announced today (Wednesday) that 5 of its members were killed in an ambush set by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a police patrol in central Khartoum.

"In the context of the RSF breaches, a group of 4 cars and a large number of snipers intercepted one patrol of the Sudanese Central Reserve Forces," the Sudanese police said in a press statement today.

The statement added, "All members of the police force, consisting of five soldiers, were killed in the Sinyet al-Qandoul area in central Khartoum."

The police held the Rapid Support Forces responsible for the killing of the policemen and considered it an act contrary to moral values.

For its part, the Rapid Support Forces said that it had repelled an attack by an army force dressed in the uniform of the Central Reserve Police Forces, which attempted to attack the Rapid Support Forces stationed in central Khartoum.

And considered that the attack is a violation of the truce announced since the 30th of last April.

Since April 15, Sudan has been witnessing bloody clashes between the two largest military forces in Sudan, the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces.

The fighting led to the displacement and refuge of thousands of Sudanese to safe areas in Sudan and to neighboring countries, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Chad, according to UN statistics.

According to the statistics of the Sudanese Ministry of Health, the death toll reached 550 and 4,926 wounded.