Update: 20 killed, 50 injured in drone strike on prison in W. Sudan: gov't

NAMPA / Xinhua

2025-05-10

KHARTOUM, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Twenty inmates were killed and 50 others injured in a drone strike targeting a central prison in El Obeid in western Sudan's North Kordofan State on Saturday, the Sudanese government said in a statement. Saying that the dead and injured inmates are all civilians, government spokesperson Khalid Ali Aleisir accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of launching the "terrorist act" on Saturday morning. It......

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