{"id":62157,"date":"2026-10-26T03:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T00:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=62157"},"modified":"2026-10-26T03:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T00:58:05","slug":"un-official-militia-drone-strikes-kill-306-sudanese-in-a-single-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/un-official-militia-drone-strikes-kill-306-sudanese-in-a-single-month\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Official: Militia Drone Strikes Kill 306 Sudanese in a Single Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T\u00fcrk revealed that 306 Sudanese people had been killed and hundreds injured in drone attacks during October.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a statement, T\u00fcrk said that \u201cthe Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights documented the killing of at least 306 people and the injury of hundreds more as a result of drone attacks during the first three weeks of October.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He explained that drone strikes attributed to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia had targeted civilian objects and infrastructure, including homes, markets, hospitals, displacement sites, power generation stations, and water sources.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>T\u00fcrk condemned the escalation of drone strikes across Sudan and their devastating consequences for civilians in Kordofan, Darfur, Blue Nile, Khartoum, and other states.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe increasing use of drones, which have already caused the majority of conflict-related civilian deaths in Sudan this year, is deeply alarming and is resulting in horrific loss of life,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He noted that retaliatory strikes were emerging as a worrying trend, citing reports that RSF drones had attacked Khartoum, including the airport area, allegedly in response to airstrikes said to have been carried out by the Sudanese Armed Forces against Nyala in South Darfur State.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>T\u00fcrk renewed his call on all parties to the conflict to respect their clear and binding obligations under international humanitarian law, including refraining from directing attacks against civilians and civilian objects.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T\u00fcrk revealed that 306 Sudanese people had been killed and hundreds injured in drone attacks during October. In a statement, T\u00fcrk said that \u201cthe Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights documented the killing of at least 306 people and the injury of hundreds more as a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62158,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62157\/revisions\/62158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}