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An attack on a United Nations food convoy in Sudan overnight killed five people and prevented food deliveries to children and families who face starvation in North Darfur’s al-Fashir, UN agencies said on Tuesday.

“Five members of the convoy were killed and several more people were injured. Multiple trucks were burned, and critical humanitarian supplies were damaged,” the UN children’s agency and the World Food Programme said in a joint statement.

They did not say who was responsible and called for an urgent investigation into the attack, which they said was a violation of international humanitarian law.

Without fresh supplies soon, hundreds of thousands of people in al-Fashir are at “high risk of malnutrition and starvation,” the UN joint statement said.

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