At least 40 people have been killed in a military air strike in Sudan's Darfur region, the health ministry says, as violence in the conflict-torn country escalates.
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The attack occurred at a market in the city of Nyala on Wednesday morning, the health ministry in Khartoum said on their Facebook page.
A local aid organisation, the Coordination of the Resistance Committees, said on Facebook that the wounded were being treated at the only hospital still operating in the city.
It was the latest in a spate of attacks over the past few days.
Over the weekend at least 50 people were killed and more than 140 injured in the capital of Khartoum and the town of Al-Fashir in Darfur, in the west of the country.
Since April, the Sudanese army under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has been fighting against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, led by Mohammed Hamdan Daglo.
The two generals had come to power together in a coup but then later fell out over how to share power.
The country is now heading for a humanitarian catastrophe.
According to the United Nations, more than four million people have already been displaced by the conflict and more than 4000 have been killed.
Besides Khartoum, Darfur has been particularly hard hit by the clashes, which have reignited ethnic hostilities.
For decades, the region has been rocked by fighting between various ethnic groups, militias and the Sudanese government.
Australian Associated Press
