Report: Drones Kill More Than 300 at a Sudan Funeral and Market
Sources put deaths in West Kordofan at 150, while an Abyei minister put the toll at Amiet Market at 153. Sudan's army faces accusations over the attacks, and South Sudan has summoned its ambassador.
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Drone strikes reportedly killed more than 300 people in Sudan's West Kordofan and disputed Abyei, hitting funeral mourners and a market and drawing a diplomatic protest from South Sudan.
The Sudan War Observatory said sources reported 150 deaths in two attacks in West Kordofan on Sunday evening. Abyei's information minister, Yohana Akol Ngor, separately said 153 people had died after Monday's attack on Amiet Market, bringing the combined toll to 303.
Local officials accused Sudan's army, and an unnamed military source told the BBC that the army conducted the Abyei strike. The army has said it does not attack civilians even when it believes Rapid Support Forces fighters are among them. It had not responded to the specific Abyei allegation, according to the BBC.
Neither the death tolls nor responsibility for the attacks has been independently established. The combined figure brings together accounts from two different sources, rather than a single verified count.
The attacks were reported amid the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, which began in April 2023. They put civilian gatherings at the centre of another deadly episode while bringing the conflict into a territory whose sovereignty Sudan and South Sudan still dispute.
