The air was stifling and the heat unforgiving on that fateful day in July 2023 when all hell broke loose in Sudan's capital.
The deafening explosions of artillery shells and rockets shook the ground during a bout of fierce fighting between the civil war enemies – the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The screams of the wounded added to the day's grimness as dark columns of dust and smoke rose up in the air and fires raged uncontrollably.
Musaab Nasreldeen, 16, was among the scores of civilians killed that day in Omdurman - one of the three Nile-side cities that make up the capital's greater region, and the first to be retaken by the army from the RSF in late 2024.
His death and burial in a school yard close to his home is neither unique nor rare in a city destroyed by war, but it speaks to the helplessness and angst of the millions trapped by a war whose belligerents have paid little or no heed to civilian lives.
Tens of thousands have been killed since the war broke out in April 2023.
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