Suicide Drone Attack Kills Three Children in Khartoum
KHARTOUM (Sudanese Echoes) – Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, was struck by a devastating tragedy on Monday after a suicide drone hit a home in Imtidad Nasr neighbourhood in eastern Khartoum, killing three siblings and seriously injuring their mother. The attack came as the Sudanese Army’s ground-based air defences engaged a second wave of drone attacks targeting the vicinity of Khartoum International Airport.
Medical sources and eyewitnesses told media outlets that the drone’s missile strike killed the children: Doaa Faisal Hassan, aged two; Lujain Faisal Hassan, aged four; and Gadura Al-Tijani, aged six. Their mother was rushed to hospital in critical condition and admitted to the intensive care unit, covered in blood. Reports also indicated that another person, a man, was killed at a separate location in the wider attacks.
On the ground, multiple military sources revealed that eastern Khartoum had been subjected to two successive waves of drone attacks during the day. The Army’s ground-based air defences engaged the aerial incursions and shot down two drones. The first came down in the Burri neighbourhood and the second in Imtidad Nasr, both near the General Command headquarters of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the vicinity of Khartoum International Airport.
Another drone crashed near the University of Khartoum’s student residences in central Khartoum, amid loud explosions that shook the capital.