A drone attack on the paramilitary-controlled town of Kutum in the Sudanese state of North Darfur claimed the lives of 12 civilians, including six children. local medical sources and local activists said on Thursday. TASR writes about it according to an AFP report.
The attack on Wednesday came amid an increase in drone strikes by both the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF), which has been at war since April 2023. An unnamed medical source told AFP that among the people brought to the hospital in Kutum, 12 were dead, among them six children, including three high school students.
Sixteen other people, including women and children, were injured and are currently under hospital care. added the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons. The al-Fashira Resistance Committee, a pro-democracy group, said the attack hit the al-Salama neighborhood near a girls’ school and blamed the military.
Last week, the United Nations (UN) reported that drone strikes claimed the lives of more than 500 civilians between January and mid-March. At the same time, she warned against the “devastating impact of technologically advanced and relatively cheap weapons in residential areas.” The UN has called the conflict, which began in April 2023, the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world. Approximately 12 million people have been displaced as a result, and half the population is facing a famine that has already killed tens of thousands of people.
