{"id":57099,"date":"2026-10-19T20:13:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=57099"},"modified":"2026-10-19T20:13:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:28:51","slug":"80-killed-in-drone-strike-on-transport-hub-in-southern-sudan-medic-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/80-killed-in-drone-strike-on-transport-hub-in-southern-sudan-medic-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"80 killed in drone strike on transport hub in southern Sudan: medic, witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>KHARTOUM, Oct 19:<\/strong> A drone strike near a market in southern Sudan killed 80 people, mostly commuters catching trucks home, a medical source and a witness told AFP on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The strike in the town of Al-Dibab in West Kordofan state on Sunday evening left &#8220;50 bodies who I helped bury, one of them my own brother Mohamed&#8221;, Ahmed Abakar Wadi told AFP, using a satellite internet connection to circumvent a communications blackout.<\/p>\n<p>He said 47 others were transported to the nearest town, Al-Mujlad, where 30 of them died from injuries, a medical source told AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHARTOUM, Oct 19: A drone strike near a market in southern Sudan killed 80 people, mostly commuters catching trucks home, a medical source and a witness told AFP on Monday. The strike in the town of Al-Dibab in West Kordofan state on Sunday evening left &#8220;50 bodies who I helped bury, one of them my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57099","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\/57099"}],"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=57099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57102,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57099\/revisions\/57102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}