A war monitoring group said Sunday that an army drone strike on a clinic in the city of Nyala, western Sudan, under paramilitary control, had killed at least 12 people.

Their report came after a medical source said Sunday that shelling by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) force had killed at least seven people and wounded 71 others in the besieged city of El-Fasher.

The army strike hit the Yashfeen clinic in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, at around midday Saturday, a source from the Emergency Lawyers group told AFP.

Speaking on condition of anonymity for safety reasons, the source said they expected the death toll to rise, as preliminary reports had indicated that dozens of civilians and medical staff may have been killed.

There was no immediate comment from the Sudanese army.

The deadly shelling of El-Fasher happened on Saturday, said the medical source. The city is the last major bastion in the vast western Darfur region still under army control.

El-Fasher has become the most violent front line in the war between the Sudanese army and the RSF, which erupted in April 2023.

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