At least 70 people were killed after a drone strike targeted the last functioning hospital in the besieged capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state late Friday, according to local officials and the World Health Organization.

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

Some 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan

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.

Geneva: Director-General of World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today called for an immediate halt to attacks on healthcare facilities and personnel in Sudan, following a drone strike on "Saudi Hospital" in Al-Fasher, North Darfur, that killed more than 70 people and injured 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.

Dubai: Some 70 people have been killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organisation said Sunday. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus offered the figure in a post on the social platform X.

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital, center, in El Fasher, Sudan on Jan 25. (AP)