The attack is one of the single deadliest in the clashes between the military and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RFS), writes TT.
The war in Sudan has now been going on for three months.
The RSF claimed to have shot down one of the military’s fighter jets on Saturday. A military source told the AFP news agency anonymously that a fighter plane had crashed but claimed it was due to technical problems.
Three day ceasefire
The warring parties reportedly agreed to a three-day ceasefire late on Saturday.
In the Darfur region of western Sudan, up to 1,100 have been killed in fighting in the town of El Geneina alone, according to US State Department estimates on Saturday.
Doctors also testified that they were overwhelmed by the hundreds of wounded who had been forced to flee Darfur in recent days.
According to the UN migration agency IOM, nearly 2.2 million inhabitants of Sudan have been forced to leave their homes, around 530,000 of them have fled to neighboring countries. Around 150,000 inhabitants of the Darfur province have fled to neighboring Chad.