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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi and agencies

Scores killed by RSF drone strike on mosque in besieged Sudanese city

Bodies on the floor covered and wrapped in blankets
Covered bodies outside a mosque in El Fasher after a drone attack by RSF forces. Photograph: Sudanese Echo

A drone strike by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher has killed 75 people worshipping in a mosque, first responders have said, as the group continued its push to capture the last foothold of Sudan’s army in the Darfur region.

The attack, one of the deadliest this year in the city, hit the al-Daraja neighbourhood, where civilians from the famine-hit Abu Shouk displacement camp had fled after it was overrun by fighters .

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