Around 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organization said Sunday, part of a series of attacks coming as the African nation's civil war escalated in recent days.

Earlier, at least 18 civilians were killed and five others injured in an attack by the paramilitary RSF on a village in North Darfur State in western Sudan, a government official said.

The head of the World Health Organization called on Saturday for an end to attacks on healthcare workers and facilities in Sudan after a drone attack on a hospital in Sudan's North Darfur region killed more than 70 people and wounded dozens.

Some 70 people killed in attack on hospital in besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, World Health Organization chief says

At least 70 people have been killed in an attack on a hospital in Sudan, World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Sunday. Rival generals have been locked in a brutal power struggle in Sudan since April 2023.