Over 40 people, including children and health care workers, were killed in an attack on a hospital in Sudan over the weekend, the head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
The attack which was launched on the Al Mujlad Hospital took place in West Kordofan, near the front line between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, who have been fighting each other since the conflict broke out in April 2023.
The WHO Sudan office, according to reports counted six children and five medics as unalived persons after the attack, reporting extensive damage to the facility.
Emergency Lawyers, a human rights group, accused an army drone of striking the hospital on Saturday, but in a statement on Sunday put the death toll at nine.
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for attacks on health infrastructure to stop, without saying who was responsible.
