Trapped by Sudan fighting, dozens of children die in Khartoum orphanage

By Associated Press

Jun 01, 2023 10:56 am

CAIRO: At least 60 infants, toddlers and older children perished over the past six weeks while trapped in harrowing conditions in an orphanage in Sudan's capital as fighting raged outside.

Most died from lack of food and from fever. Twenty-six died in two days over the weekend.

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