Drone Strike Kills 4 Women in Sudan’s Blue Nile State
Emergency Lawyers said the strike hit homes and a mosque, wounding dozens as Sudan’s war with the Rapid Support Forces continues.
- On Wednesday, a drone strike hit homes and a mosque in the Hijra neighborhood of Damazin, killing at least four women and wounding dozens, according to the rights group Emergency Lawyers.
- The Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese military have been at war for more than three years, with fighting erupting in Khartoum in April 2023 before spreading across Sudan.
- Across Sudan, 33.7 million people urgently need aid, with conflict monitor ACLED reporting at least 150,000 deaths and more than 12.4 million people displaced by the fighting.
- Days earlier, an airstrike hit World Food Programme trucks in Dilling, an attack Denise Brown, the U.N. resident and humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, condemned as "outrageous."
- Over the weekend, Massad Boulos, senior adviser to President Donald Trump for Arab and African affairs, met with Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan in Egypt as the U.S. administration pushes for a diplomatic end to the war.
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Drone strike kills 4 women in Sudan’s Blue Nile state
A drone strike blamed on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces hit homes and a mosque in Blue Nile province, killing at least four women and wounding dozens of civilians, a rights group said.
Identical sources revealed that four women were killed in a drone attack on the city of Damazin, Blue Nile region, Wednesday morning.
Damazin, October 7, 2026 – At least four civilians were killed and others wounded on Wednesday in drone strikes, likely carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), targeting Damazin, the capital of Blue Nile State. The strikes coincided with attacks on the homes of the state's finance and culture and information ministers. This attack comes days after a similar attack on Damazin, which targeted, among other locations, the home of Blue Nile St…
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