Emergency Lawyers said the strike hit Tanqong Market in the Dumaya neighbourhood of Nyala, a city the supplied reports described as being controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The group reported that the attack occurred on the evening of October 26, 2026, and attributed it to the Sudanese military.
Emergency Lawyers also said that many of those killed and injured were women and children. Its account formed part of the broader reported toll of more than 100 deaths and 113 injuries, figures that were carried by multiple supplied reports but remain claims rather than independently established findings.
Separate figures from Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF, provided a hospital-based view of the aftermath. The organisation said 36 bodies arrived at its Nyala hospital and that its emergency room treated or saw 150 injured people. Those figures cover hospital arrivals and patients and therefore do not directly duplicate the wider reported casualty estimate.
The reports place the attack within Sudan’s continuing war between the Sudanese army and the RSF, while describing Nyala as under RSF control. They also attribute responsibility for the market strike to the Sudanese military; no independently verified account establishing responsibility was supplied.
The available evidence therefore documents a reported mass-casualty strike at a civilian market, alongside differing casualty measures from rights groups, local officials and MSF. The exact relationship between those figures, as well as the responsibility for the attack, remains unresolved in the supplied material.