More than 100 people killed in Sudanese army drone attack on market, says Sudanese rights group

SHENDI, Sudan — More than 100 people were killed in a Sudanese military drone strike on a busy market in Nyala, the capital city of the South Darfur province in southwestern Sudan, said Emergency Lawyers, a rights group tracking violence in the country, in a statement Tuesday.

The strike, which it says happened Monday evening, also injured 113 people. The group said many of those killed and injured were women and children. The group blamed the Sudanese military for the strike on the market, condemning the attack.

“This massacre transformed a civilian marketplace into a scene of mass killing and injury and is an assault that threatens the lives of residents and compounds their suffering amid the ongoing war,” the group said in a statement. It called for an independent investigation into the strike.

Doctors Without Borders, which is also known as Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF, said earlier that 36 bodies arrived at its hospital in Nyala and reported seeing 150 injured in its emergency room. Nyala, the capital of South Darfur province, is controlled by the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces, which has been fighting with the Sudanese army since 2023.

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