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.

Drone attack on hospital in Sudan’s Darfur kills at least 70, says WHO chief - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says it was ‘the only functional hospital in El Fasher’

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

ALBAWABA - Sudanese politician Suliman Arcua Minnawi, commonly known as Minni Minnawi, announced the killing of 70 people in a drone attack on Alfashir

Dubai: Some 70 people have been killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organisation said Sunday. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus offered the figure in a post on the social platform X.

Tehran, IRNA – Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei has condemned a drone attack on a hospital in El Fasher city in Sudan’s western region of Darfur that left at least 70 people dead.

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital, center, in El Fasher, Sudan on Jan 25. (AP)

The WHO chief has urged a halt on attacks against healthcare facilities in Sudan after a devastating drone strike on a hospital in North Darfur killed over 70 people. The ongoing conflict between Sudan's army and RSF is causing widespread humanitarian crises and ethnic violence in the region.

The attack, which killed at least 70 people in Sudan's El Fasher, is being seen as a part of the series of attacks amid the African nation facing a civil unrest.

Around 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functioning hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher, Sudan, World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced on Sunday.

Some 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 World Health Organisation said Sunday, part of a series of attacks coming as the African nation's civil war escalated in recent days.

Following the attack on Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital in El Fasher, Sudan, which resulted in 70 deaths and 19 injuries, UNICEF on Tuesday said that at least one girl and three boys were reportedly killed and three boys injured.