United Nations officials said today (Tuesday) that the death toll from a drone strike on a hospital in Sudan has risen to 70, including women, children, and medics, as more bodies were recovered from the rubble.
The World Health Organization (WHO) stated that Al-Daein Teaching Hospital in East Darfur State was bombed on March 20, but did not specify who was responsible for the attack.
The organization added that the strike caused operations to cease at the medical facility, which served as a referral hospital for more than two million people.
Hala Khudari, the organization’s deputy representative in Sudan, said during a press briefing in Geneva that search and rescue efforts resulted in the identification of six more bodies, bringing the total death toll to 70. She added that the number of injured has risen to 146.
A spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office stated that the drone attack took place in an area controlled by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been fighting the Sudanese army in a civil war that began in April 2023.
The commission said it did not have enough evidence to make accusations, but noted that both sides of the war are using drones in civilian locations, in acts that may constitute war crimes.
It added that the use of drones is increasing in the conflict and that more than 500 civilians, mostly in the Kordofan region, have been killed in such strikes since the beginning of the year.
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