At least 17 killed after drone strikes school in Sudan

At least 17 people, most of them schoolgirls, were killed on Wednesday when an explosive-laden drone blamed on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces struck a secondary school and a health care centre. The war-tracking Sudan Doctors Network reported the strike first, saying those killed included two teachers and a health care worker.

• The devastating war has killed more than 40,000 people, according to UN figures, but aid groups say that the true number could be many times higher.
• At least 6,000 people were killed in three days in October in el-Fasher, the UN’s human rights office said.
• Sudan slid into chaos in April 2023 when a power struggle between the military and the RSF exploded into open fighting in Khartoum and elsewhere in the country.

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