AT LEAST 13 people were killed by a drone attack on a house in Sudan.

Eight of those killed in the attack in el-Obeid were children and most of the dead were part of the same family, the Sudan Doctors’ Network (SDN) reported.

No group has claimed responsibility but the medical group said it suspected it was carried out by the United Arab Emirates-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The SDN said the latest attack is “a dangerous escalation of the policy of indiscriminate killing and systematic bombing of safe residential areas.”

The city of el-Obeid remains under army control despite the RSF’s advance elsewhere in the wider state of North Kordofan.

There has been no immediate comment from the RSF.

The proxy war between the RSF and the Egypt and Saudi Arabia-backed military, which is now approaching its third year, has been described by the United Nations and aid agencies as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis

So far, more than 11 million people have been forced from their homes by the violence, and hundreds of thousands of people have been killed. There have also accusations of widespread sexual violence being used as a weapon of war.

The RSF and the Sudanese military have both been accused of atrocities.