More than 100 people including 63 children were killed in attacks on a kindergarten and hospital in Sudan, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The attacks on 4 December began with repeated strikes on the kindergarten in South Kordofan state.

It continued even as parents and caretakers rushed to the wounded in a nearby hospital, WHO added.

It comes as Sudan 's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said today it had taken control of the strategic Heglig oilfield in the South Kordofan province, two and a half years into the country's civil war.

WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X: "Repeated strikes in Sudan's South Kordofan state hit a kindergarten and, at least three times, the nearby Kalogi Rural Hospital, killing 114 people, including 63 chil

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