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Drone strike kills 6 in Sudan hospital as cholera rages
Gulf Today
|May 31, 2025
Sudan's paramilitary bombarded El-Obeid on Friday, killing six people in a hospital in the key southern city, as doctors in the capital fought to contain a cholera outbreak.
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"The militia launched a drone strike on the Social Insurance Hospital, killing six and wounding 12, simultaneously attacking residential areas of the city with heavy artillery," an army source told AFP, adding that the bombardment had also hit a second hospital in the city centre.
A medical source at El-Obeid Hospital, the city's main facility, confirmed the toll.
El-Obeid, a strategic city 400 kilometres (250 miles) southwest of Khartoum, was besieged by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for nearly two years before the regular army broke the siege in February.
It was one of a series of counteroffensives that later saw the army recapture Khartoum.
This story is from the May 31, 2025 edition of Gulf Today.
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