At least 15 killed in attack on southern Sudan

KHARTOUM: A series of strikes blamed on the Sudanese army in the town of Lagawa, in West Kordofan state, killed at least 15 people on Monday, a medical source told AFP.

The Kordofan region is currently the fiercest battlefield in the three-year war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who hold West Kordofan state.

“Fifteen bodies and 23 wounded people arrived in the hospital from three neighbourhoods,” the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity for their safety.

The RSF accused the army of carrying out the attack, calling it part of the military’s “systematic shelling of hospitals, markets and residential neighbourhoods in the cities of Kordofan and Darfur, using drones.”