WHO says over 40 people, including children, killed in Sudan hospital attack
The plea from the WHO comes as the UN accused both sides of having committed human rights violations.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu, the WHO chief, called for attacks on hospitals and medical infrastructure to stop [FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images]
Over 40 people, including children and health care workers, were killed in an attack on a hospital in Sudan at the weekend, the head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
Saturday's attack on the Al Mujlad Hospital took place in West Kordofan, near the front line between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who have been fighting each other since the conflict broke out in April 2023.
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for attacks on health infrastructure to stop, without saying who was responsible.
The WHO Sudan office said that six children and five medics were killed in 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.
Sudan's war has been ongoing sicne fighting broke out between the RSF and Sudanese army in April 2023, with tens of thousands having been killed and millions displaced.
On Monday, the UN's under secretary-general and acting special advisor to UN chief Antonio Guterres, Virginia Gamba warned that there was a serious risk of genocide being perpetrated in Sudan, with the RSF and allied militias targeting the Zaghawa, Masalit and Fur groups.
Gamba added that "both parties have committed serious human rights violations."
(Reuters & The New Arab Staff)
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