New Details on the Kalogi Massacre

Darfur24 has obtained new information regarding the drone attack on Kalogi in South Kordofan state, which claimed the lives of 79 people, including 43 children, according to an official statistic. The strike, carried out the day before yesterday, Thursday, targeted a kindergarten and the rural hospital, leaving widespread shock among the local population.

Local sources in Kalogi told Darfur24 that a drone carried out a series of airstrikes on Thursday morning, initially targeting a kindergarten located near the Education Administration, Locality Offices, and the Intelligence Service headquarters.

They indicated that the first strike resulted in the deaths of 43 children, in addition to two female teachers, and injured eight other children, with only five children surviving. The sources added that a number of civilians rushed to the kindergarten to assist the wounded children, but the drone returned to carry out a second strike on the same location, causing additional deaths and injuries among the civilians who were trying to help.

The sources further reported that a third group of residents and volunteers arrived to evacuate the injured and recover the bodies, transporting the wounded to Kalogi Hospital. Upon their arrival, the drone struck the hospital, marking the third attack, which resulted in the deaths of a number of patients, injured individuals, and those inside or near the hospital.

According to the sources, the death toll has now exceeded 80, most of them children, including women. Some bodies remain unidentified, and scattered body parts have made it impossible to identify certain victims.

They also explained that a shell was fired at a local government rest house but did not explode, while residents reported widespread panic and collapse among the population due to the repeated strikes and direct targeting of civilian sites.

The Executive Director of Kalogi Locality, Issam Al-Din Al-Sayid Anglo, stated on Friday that the death toll from the drone strikes on civilian facilities reached 79, including 43 children.

The Armed Forces control the city of Kalogi, the capital of Gadir Locality, which is situated in South Kordofan state within the Nuba Mountains region, known as the “southern area of Sudan.” Kalogi is part of a network of towns and villages spread across the plains and mountains of the state.