Sudan: 70 killed in Rapid Support Forces attack on hospital in El Fasher

SANAA, Jan. 25 (YPA) – Minni Arko Minawi, the governor of Darfur region in western Sudan, announced on Saturday that more than 70 people were killed when the Rapid Support Forces targeted the Saudi hospital in the city of El Fasher with a drone.

Manawi said in a post on his account on the X platform: “The Rapid Support Forces drone targeted the Saudi Hospital, the accident department, the only department remaining from their targeting.”

He explained that the attack killed all the patients inside (the accident department), numbering more than 70 patients, including women, children and others.

Manawi attached photos of the attack, showing blood on the floors of the department and extensive destruction.

For its part, the Al-Fasher Resistance Committee said in a statement, on Saturday, that “The death toll at the Saudi Hospital in Al-Fasher, among the wounded and companions, reached 67 martyrs, and dozens were injured as a result of a drone bombing of the Saudi Hospital.”

She added that the bombing led to the complete destruction of the hospital’s accident department, putting it completely out of service.

The “El Fasher Resistance” are popular committees that led neighborhood protests against former President Omar al-Bashir in 2019, and after the outbreak of war in April 2023, they shifted to working in relief efforts and providing services in residential neighborhoods.