More than 100 people, including dozens of children, were killed in an attack on a Sudanese kindergarten, Reuters reported on Monday, citing the World Health Organization, and the attack continued as parents and caregivers rushed the injured to nearby hospitals.
Medical facilities in Sudan have come under repeated attacks near the front lines of the two-and-a-half year civil war. In October, a massacre also occurred in the city of El Fasher.
According to the WHO database, heavy weapons were used, killing 114 people, including 63 children, and injuring 35 others.
A WHO spokesperson said the death toll included casualties from the kindergarten strike, the transfer of patients to an adjacent rural hospital, and the attack on the facility itself.
Most children were killed in the first attack, he added, but later parents and health workers were also killed.