The RSF did not immediately acknowledge the attack in El Fasher, which is over 800 kilometers southwest of Khartoum.

The head of the World Health Organization called on Saturday for an end to attacks on health care workers and facilities in Sudan after a drone attack on a hospital in Sudan's North Darfur region killed more than 70 people and wounded dozens.

The African country is gripped by a civil war between the army and rebel forces. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced more than 12 million.

Local officials have attributed the drone attack that killed 70 people to the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group

(Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization called on Saturday for an end to attacks on healthcare workers and facilities in Sudan after a drone attack on a hospital in Sudan's North Darfur region killed more than 70 people and wounded dozens.

Seventy patients and companions died in a drone strike on one of the last functioning hospitals in western Sudan's Darfur, the region's governor said.