Fatma's five-year-old son was cradling the body of his murdered mother when the cart they had been using to flee the violence of West Darfur arrived in the village.
Men in crisp white thobes sit on mats under a leafy thorn tree carefully cutting pieces of white material.Another shroud for another life lost to senseless violence.The latest victim of the militias terrorising their community lies in a two room morgue a few metres away.
Fatma's sister Zeinab says her five-year-old nephew El-Sheikh was holding his pregnant mother's body when the cart arrived in the village.Men stitch together shrouds with tender, experienced precision Hospital workers were cleaning the blood from the floor when they arrived at Dr Mahmoud Adam's office.
"Since the war in Khartoum started so many wounded civilians are passing through the border from Darfur," said Dr Mahmoud, whose hospital now has treatment tents operated by the medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres in its grounds."It is so sad that to see people dying and suffering like this," he said.We walk over to the morgue where Fatma lies covered on a cement slab.
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