Drone strikes blamed on Sudan's army have killed over 200 people, including mourners at a funeral and shoppers at a market in West Kordofan and the disputed Abyei region.
01Summary
- 01At least 145 mourners were killed when a truck carrying about 200 people was hit in Al-Dabab, West Kordofan on Sunday evening.
- 02A further five people died in a tent at the funeral, and another 150 were injured, according to the Sudan War Observatory.
- 03Seventy-three people were killed in a Monday drone strike on Amiet Common Market in Abyei, claimed by the army as a fuel supply site for the RSF.
- 04South Sudan has summoned Sudan's ambassador to protest the Abyei strike.
- 05A separate drone strike near Khartoum airport on Monday killed four people, including three children.
02Why it matters
The use of drones is escalating Sudan's civil war, killing hundreds of civilians and threatening to draw neighbouring South Sudan into the conflict, amid a worsening humanitarian crisis with 20 million people facing acute hunger.
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