Fighting in Sudan's war sets ablaze the country's largest oil refinery, satellite photos show

Fighting around Sudan’s largest oil refinery has set the sprawling complex ablaze, sending thick, black polluted smoke over the country’s capital, Khartoum. That's according to satellite data analyzed by The Associated Press on Saturday An attack on Thursday at the oil field set fires across the complex, according to satellite data from NASA satellites that track wildfires worldwide. Satellite images taken by Planet Labs PBC on Friday for the AP showed vast areas of the refinery ablaze. The images, shot just after 1200 GMT, showed flames shooting up into the sky in several spots. Oil tanks at the facility stood burned, covered in soot. It's the latest woe in a war between the rebel Rapid Support Force and Sudan’s military, who blamed each other for the blaze.