GENEVA, March 24 (Reuters) – United Nations officials said on Tuesday that the death toll from a drone strike on a Sudanese hospital has risen to 70, including women, children and medics, as more bodies were pulled from the rubble.
* Al Deain Teaching Hospital in East Darfur was struck onMarch 20, the World Health Organization said, withoutattributing blame. The WHO said the strike put the medicalfacility, which acted as a referral hospital for over 2 millionpeople, out of operation. * After search-and-rescue efforts, an additional six bodieswere identified, the WHO’s Hala Khudari, acting deputyWHO representative to Sudan, told a Geneva briefing, bringingthe total number of dead to 70. The number of people injured hasrisen to 146, Khudari said. * A U.N. human rights office spokesperson said theaerial attack involved drones in an area controlled by the RapidSupport Forces, which is battling Sudan’s army in a civil warthat began in April 2023. * The U.N. rights office said it did not have enoughevidence to attribute blame, but said both sides in the war haveused drones on civilian sites in acts that might constitute warcrimes. * Drones are increasingly being used in the conflict andover 500 civilians have been killed in such strikes since thebeginning of the year, mostly in the Kordofan region, the U.N.rights office says.
(Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Aidan Lewis)
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