70 Killed In Attack On Western Sudan Hospital – WHO

70 Killed In Attack On Western Sudan Hospital – WHO

An attack on the main hospital in El-Fasher, a besieged town in western Sudan, has killed 70 people and wounded 19 others, the World Health Organisation chief said on Sunday.

WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated in a post on X that the “awful attack on Saudi Hospital in El Fasher… led to 19 injuries and 70 deaths among patients and companions.”

“At the time of the attack, the hospital was packed with patients receiving care”, he added.

Saudi Arabia also referred to the attack as a “violation of international law and international humanitarian law” in a eponymous statement addressed to Sudan’s healthcare targeting on Sunday.

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It called for “protection of medical and humanitarian workers”, practice of “self-restraint” and avoidance of “targeting civilians”.

Sudan has been the site of a brutal conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo and army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan since April 2023.

El-Fasher has been under armed-aligned militias’ control since May, but the RSF has been under siege there since May despite repeated failed attempts by armed-aligned militias to seize the city.

Which of Sudan’s two rival factions carried out the attack, according to AFP without any independent verification.

A humanitarian disaster of epic proportions has been caused by the Sudanese conflict.

Over 12 million people have been displaced, and tens of thousands have been killed.

Some families are surviving on grass and animal fodder in some areas of the nation, particularly in the west and south, as a result of a famine that is sweeping through some areas.

Source: Channels TV

 

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