At least 14 people, most of them children, were killed in an airstrike launched by an Antonov of the Sudanese Air Force on El Hadra village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, on Thursday. Three other places were also hit.
The Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North under the leadership of Abdelaziz El Hilu strongly condemned the attack.
The losses were mainly concentrated in El Hadra, where two teachers, 11 students between 9 and 19 years old, and an unidentified person were killed. The air raids caused the displacement of about 100 families from the village, while no information was available about the situation in the other places.in which is strongly condemned the"aerial bombardment of the El Hadra school in the Nuba Mountains, killing 11 pupils and two teachers, confirms the barbaric nature of the Sudan Armed Forces , and its hostility towards Sudanese civilians".
She goes on to say that"First: If the SAF wants to go to war with the SPLMA/N, they know the locations of its camps and positions well. There is no reason for them to bomb a school with innocent children.
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