Health authorities say at least seven people have been killed by a drone strike on an army hospital in southern Sudan’s besieged city of Dilling on Sunday.
12 people were also injured, according to a hospital source who said the victims were mainly patients taking treatment at the hospital and their escorts.
It is widely believed that the strike was carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces whose fighters have been laying siege to Dilling, located in South Kordofan.
The RSF have not commented.
The drone attacks follows a somilar one on a UN peacekeeping depot which killed six Bangladeshi soldiers in Kadugli.
The beleaguered Sudanese army has been in control of the huge South Kordofan region but face fierce onslaught from the RSF fighters who captured the Darfuri city of El Fasher in October.
There are reports of famine in the army controlled state capital Kadugli, which the UN said the absence of data makes impossible to quantify.
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