At least ten dead in
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At least ten dead in attack at child vaccination event in Sudan

A hospital in Sudan was attacked on Thursday in the ongoing civil war. At least ten people were killed, seven of them hospital staff, Doctors Without Borders said in a press release.

The drone attack occurred at the same time hospitals were receiving children for an ongoing vaccination campaign, including the hospital in al-Jabalain in the southeast of the country.

In the civil war in Sudan, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are fighting the country's army, but the civilian population is hardest hit, with tens of thousands of deaths and millions displaced.

RSF is believed to be behind the attack.

Doctors Without Borders said it was helping to transport patients and injured people to hospitals in a city 80 kilometers away.

The neighboring country of Chad also came under drone attacks on Thursday.

AuthorTT News AgencyEnglish edition by Sweden Herald, adapted for our readers
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