Unimaginable massacre in Sudan, paramilitaries kill 460 patients inside hospital and take doctors hostage

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Unimaginable massacre in Sudan, paramilitaries kill 460 patients inside hospital
Saudi Hospital in Darfur, Sudan

Paramilitary forces turned El Fasher's last functioning hospital into a "human slaughterhouse," massacring hundreds of people, including patients, as they attacked the town, aid workers and local officials said.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that 460 patients and attendants were killed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher, in the capital of Sudan's North Darfur state.

A video filmed by RSF fighters and uploaded to social media shows armed soldiers in a looted hospital ward filled with dozens of bodies.

A wounded man is shot at close range before the camera pans back to the courtyard filled with corpses.

The Sudan Doctors Network, a medical group that follows the war, said the Rapid Support Forces on Tuesday "killed in cold blood everyone they found inside the Saudi Hospital, including patients, their companions and anyone else present in the wards", describing it as a "human slaughterhouse".

Six medical workers, including four doctors, a pharmacist and a nurse, were also kidnapped from the hospital, the group said.

RSF had demanded a reward of 100 million Sudanese pounds ($42,000) for each doctor, he added.

El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur and the last major stronghold of government forces in the region, had been under siege for 18 months before finally falling earlier this week.

Over 2,000 people are believed to have died in the mass killings that followed.

In a report released late Tuesday, the Humanitarian Research Laboratory (HRL) of the Yale School of Public Health said RSF fighters have continued to commit massacres after taking the city.


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