Afghanistan, Oct. 28 -- More than 100 people were killed and 113 others injured in a drone strike on a crowded market in Nyala, southwestern Sudan, according to the Emergency Lawyers rights group, which monitors violence in the country.
The strike took place on Monday evening at Tanqong Market in the Dumaya neighbourhood of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, the group said in a statement reported by the Associated Press on Tuesday. Many of the victims were women and children, it added.
Emergency Lawyers blamed the Sudanese Armed Forces for the attack and called for an independent investigation. The group condemned the strike, saying it had turned a civilian marketplace into a scene of mass casualties and further deepened the suffering of...