At least 70 people were killed after a drone strike targeted the last functioning hospital in the besieged capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state late Friday, according to local officials and the World Health Organization.

The RSF did not immediately acknowledge the attack in El Fasher, which is over 800 kilometers southwest of Khartoum.

Local officials have attributed the drone attack that killed 70 people to the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group

Seventy patients and companions died in a drone strike on one of the last functioning hospitals in western Sudan's Darfur, the region's governor said.

The head of the World Health Organization called on Saturday for an end to attacks on health care workers and facilities in Sudan after a drone attack on a hospital in Sudan's North Darfur region killed more than 70 people and wounded dozens.

Fasher. Nationwide, up to 80 per cent of the health care facilities are no longer operational due to the conflict, according to official estimates

About 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the WHO said yesterday, part of a series of attacks coming as the African nation’s civil war escalated in recent days.

Some 70 people killed in attack on hospital in besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, World Health Organization chief says