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Drone strike kills at least 21 and injures 40 in Sudan’s Nyala

Drone strike kills at least 21 and injures 40 in Sudan’s Nyala

A resident says the attack took place on Monday evening at a market in the north of Nyala city in the Darfur region.

At least 21 people have been killed and 40 others were wounded in a drone strike in Nyala, Darfur, the AFP news agency reported, citing a medical source and witnesses.

A Nyala resident said that the attack took place at around 8pm (18:00 GMT) on Monday at a market in the north of the city – which serves as the de facto capital of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

“Twenty-one people were killed in last night’s bombing, and more than 40 others injured,” a medic at Nyala Hospital said on Tuesday.

Another Nyala resident told AFP that the market was frequented by armed men, particularly RSF fighters.

The Sudanese military, which has been at war with the RSF since April 2023, regularly strikes Nyala, where the RSF has declared an administration rivalling the military-backed, internationally recognised government in Khartoum.

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