A medical source confirmed today (Monday) that at least 15 people were killed in shelling on the city of Lagawa in West Kordofan state, southern Sudan.
A source at Lagawa Hospital said, “15 bodies and 23 wounded people from three neighborhoods in the city arrived at the hospital after the shelling.”
For its part, the Rapid Support Forces, which controls West Kordofan, blamed the army for the shelling.
It condemned “in the strongest terms this barbaric aggression, which is manifested in the systematic shelling of hospitals, markets, and residential neighborhoods in a number of cities in the Kordofan and Darfur regions” which it controls in western Sudan.
The Kordofan region currently represents the main front in the war that has been ongoing for three years between the army and the Rapid Support Forces.
Near-daily strikes by drones result in dozens of deaths, while the risk of famine threatens hundreds of thousands.
The World Health Organization announced the day before yesterday (Saturday) that 64 people were killed and dozens injured in a strike that hit a hospital in Sudan.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said yesterday that a strike targeting a hospital in Sudan left 64 dead, including 13 children.
Tedros said in a post on the X platform, “The World Health Organization has verified a new attack on healthcare facilities in Sudan. This time, El Daein Teaching Hospital in the capital of East Darfur was targeted, resulting in the death of at least 64 people, including 13 children, two nurses, one doctor, and a number of patients.”
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Sudan had previously expressed its “deep dismay over an attack on a hospital in East Darfur yesterday, which was reported to have resulted in the deaths of dozens, including children, and the injury of many.” It pointed to 64 dead and 89 wounded.
The Sudanese Emergency Lawyers rights group, which documents atrocities in the ongoing war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, reported that the strike was carried out “by army drones” and hit El Daein Teaching Hospital.
