At least five dead and 22 injured in an RSF drone attack on a hospital in Omdurman (Sudan)

July 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least five civilians have died and another 22 people have been injured in a drone attack on a hospital in the city of Omdurman that the Sudanese Ministry of Health has attributed this Saturday to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to the Agency. Sudan News (SUNA).

“Continuing with its approach of violating International Humanitarian Law and all the rules of war, the rebel militia attacked today (Saturday) with a drone the emergency and casualty complex of the Omdurman Medical Weapons Hospital, killing five patients and wounding 22, most of them civilians,” the General Command of the Armed Forces detailed in a statement.

“The militia had repeatedly attacked the hospital with drones, which demonstrates the intention of the attack,” the letter continues, in which it is reported that the hospital’s emergency department is receiving “all emergency cases, of all categories of people, both civilian and military”.

This attack comes after at least 34 people, including several minors, died on Wednesday after a bombing attack on a popular market in the same city.

The conflict in Sudan has so far left more than a thousand dead, according to official data, but the real figures could be much higher taking into account the intercommunal violence unleashed in the regions of Kordofan and Darfur.

In addition, more than 2.9 million people have been displaced, including nearly 700,000 who have fled to neighboring countries, according to data released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), amid reports of daily atrocities and large-scale sexual abuse against the women and girls of the country.