Sudan11 March, 20261 min read
Sudanese Paramilitaries Massacre School and Clinic in White Nile, Killing Mostly Schoolgirls
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Explosive-laden drone struck a secondary school and health-care center in Shukeiri, White Nile. Attack killed at least 17 people, most of them schoolgirls.
The strike and casualties
An explosive-laden drone struck a secondary school and a health-care centre in the village of Shukeiri in White Nile province.
“An explosive-laden drone blamed on Sudanese paramilitaries struck a secondary school and a health-care centre in southern Sudan Wednesday, killing at least 17 people, mostly schoolgirls, a hospital official and a medical group said.”
The attack killed at least 17 people — mostly schoolgirls — according to hospital officials and a medical group reporting from southern Sudan.
Wounded and victims' details
Local medical authorities said at least 10 people were wounded.
Dr. Musa al-Majeri, director of the nearby Douiem Hospital, reported three girls suffered serious injuries, two of whom underwent surgeries while a third was evacuated to Khartoum.
The war-tracking Sudan Doctors Network said those killed included two teachers and a health-care worker and reported there was no military presence in the village.
Blame and condemnation
Both the medical group and Dr. al-Majeri blamed the attack on Sudanese paramilitaries, identifying the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as the perpetrators. Reporters noted the RSF did not respond to requests for comment. Medical representatives denounced the strike as a continuation of violations in White Nile and linked it to other recent attacks on civilian facilities.
“Both the medical group and al-Majeri blamed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for the strike. The RSF didn’t respond to a request for comment.”
Wider war context
Reporting framed the strike as part of Sudan’s wider conflict. Journalists described the attack as the latest deadly incident in the country’s nearly three-year war. The reporting cites U.N. figures placing the war’s death toll at more than 40,000 people.