Secretary of State Antony Blinken has confirmed an attack on a U.S. diplomatic convoy in Sudan amid ongoing violence in the region.'Yesterday, we had an American diplomatic convoy that was fired on,' said Blinken, who is currently in Japan. &q..
ABCNewsongoing violence"Yesterday, we had an American diplomatic convoy that was fired on," said Blinken, who is currently in Japan. "All people are safe."Since heavy fighting erupted in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on Saturday, at least 97 civilians have been killed in the crossfire while 365 others have been wounded, according to a statement released Monday morning from the Sudan Doctors' Syndicate, a pro-democracy group monitoring casualties.
"Severe damages have been confirmed" at several hospitals in Khartoum and other Sudanese cities, with some facilities now "completely out of service" after being bombed, according to the Sudan Doctors' Syndicate, which called the issue "a clear violation of international humanitarian law." While the violence has spread from Khartoum to other parts of Sudan, "the heaviest concentration of fighting" is centered in the densely populated capital, according to the World Health Organization, the global health arm of the United Nations.
The clashes are the culmination of weeks of tensions between Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, the commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces, and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the head of the Rapid Support Forces, a Sudanese paramilitary group. So far, neither has shown any indication of backing down.
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