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.

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.

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.

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Tanzanian President Samia Sululu Hassan confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus. File Photo by World Health Organization ...

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.

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has called on January 26 for an immediate end to attacks on healthcare workers and facilities in Sudan after a drone strike on a hospital in the North Darfur region killed more than 70 people and injured dozens.

The World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus condemned the recent attack on the Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital in El Fasher, Sudan, which resulted in 70 deaths and 19 injuries.

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