{"id":43659,"date":"2026-03-08T14:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=43659"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:36:17","slug":"drone-strikes-on-sudan-markets-kill-33-medical-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/drone-strikes-on-sudan-markets-kill-33-medical-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone strikes on Sudan markets kill 33: medical source"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A drone attack hit two markets in paramilitary-controlled towns in southwest Sudan, killing 33 people, a medical source told AFP on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The strikes targeted the markets of Abu Zabad and Wad Banda in West Kordofan state &#8212; part of the resource-rich Kordofan region that is currently the fiercest battlefield in the nearly three-year war between Sudan&#8217;s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).<\/p>\n<p>A doctor at Abu Zabad hospital, one of the few medical facilities still serving the area, said two drones struck the markets on Saturday, injuring 59 people.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking via a Starlink connection and requesting anonymity, the doctor said 30 of the wounded remain receiving treatment. The two towns lie roughly 15 kilometres (9 miles) apart.<\/p>\n<p>A resident of Abu Zabad town, Hamad Abdullah, said he helped bury 20 people on Saturday following what he described as an army drone strike on the town&#8217;s market.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Four of them were my relatives who worked in the market,&#8221; he told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>A military source rejected the accusations, telling AFP that the &#8220;armed forces do not bombard civilian areas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a lie with no basis. We only target rebels, their equipment and their weapons depots,&#8221; the source said, requesting anonymity because they are not authorised to brief the media.<\/p>\n<p>Since war broke out in April 2023, both sides have been accused of war crimes including targeting civilians and indiscriminately shelling residential areas.<\/p>\n<p>The war has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced more than 11 million and fuelled what the United Nations describes as the world&#8217;s largest displacement and hunger crises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drone attack hit two markets in paramilitary-controlled towns in southwest Sudan, killing 33 people, a medical source told AFP on Sunday. The strikes targeted the markets of Abu Zabad and Wad Banda in West Kordofan state &#8212; part of the resource-rich Kordofan region that is currently the fiercest battlefield in the nearly three-year war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43660,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43659\/revisions\/43660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}