Sudan: Rights group reports over 100 killed in drone strike on Nyala market
Emergency Lawyers blames the army and calls for an independent investigation. Doctors Without Borders treated around 150 injured people.
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A drone strike on a busy market in Nyala, capital of Sudan's South Darfur state, killed more than 100 people, according to a rights group. Emergency Lawyers also reported 113 injured, many of them women and children. It blamed the Sudanese army, which has been fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since 2023. Nyala is controlled by the RSF.
The attack took place on Monday evening. On Tuesday, AFP initially reported at least 21 dead and 40 injured, citing a medical source. Doctors Without Borders said 36 bodies were brought to its hospital in Nyala and that it saw around 150 injured people in its emergency room. Emergency Lawyers said the "massacre transformed a civilian marketplace into a scene of mass killing and injury" and called for an independent investigation.
According to the UN, drone strikes by both sides have become the deadliest threat to civilians in the war. The ACLED monitor says at least 59,000 people have been killed since 2023; around 34 million need aid, according to the UN. Separately, a drone strike on the Al-Markhiyat transformer station in Omdurman, which an official attributed to the RSF, left much of Khartoum without power for more than 12 hours.