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Around 70 killed on hospital attack in Sudan
This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital (centre) in El Fasher, Sudan, January 25, 2025
[Planet Labs PBC via AP]
ABOUT 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functioning hospital in the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher, World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirmed today.
Saturday’s attack on the Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital, which local officials blamed on the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF), also injured 19.
It came as the group was facing apparent battlefield losses to the Sudanese military and allied forces under the command of army chief General Abdel-Fattah Burhan.
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