KHARTOUM: A pick-up truck carrying dozens of people to a funeral in Sudan’s southern Kordofan region was hit by a drone strike, killing 40, a medical source at the local hospital told AFP on Wednesday.
Sudan has for nearly three years been gripped by a war between its regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, killing tens of thousands and displacing millions more.
Kordofan is currently the fiercest battlefield, where near-daily drone strikes kill dozens at a time.
“Yesterday, 40 people, mostly women, were killed when their pick-up truck was hit by a drone strike on the road between Abu Zabad and El-Fula,” two towns in Sudan’s West Kordofan state, a medical source at Abu Zabad Hospital said, requesting anonymity for his safety.
“They were on their way to El-Fula for a funeral, which is why several members of the same family died,” Abu Zabad resident Hamad Abdallah added, saying they had all been “buried in the same place.”
