Al-Tina, February 14 (Darfur24)
A drone strike believed to have been carried out by the Rapid Support Forces killed a man and his wife in the Sudanese border town of Al-Tina on Saturday, local sources said, in the latest in a series of aerial attacks that have heightened fear among civilians near the Chad border.
Two reliable sources in the town told Darfur24 that the couple was struck while traveling with their young child. A medical source inside Chad, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the strike killed both adults while their three-year-old daughter survived and was transferred to Mabrouka Hospital, supported by Doctors Without Borders.
A volunteer in the area said a strategic drone fired a missile at the family while they were riding a motorcycle, confirming that the child survived the blast and was taken across the border for treatment.
Earlier this month, Doctors Without Borders reported that two drone attacks on the town killed ten people and injured 25 others. At the beginning of February, another drone strike targeting a commercial convoy on the road linking Al-Tina and the town of Farouk, northwest of Kutum, left four people dead and more than ten injured.
Al-Tina, along with the towns of Karnoi and Ambro, remains among the last Darfur locations held by the Sudanese army and allied forces following the expansion of RSF control across much of the region, including the capture of El Fashir last October.