Around 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organization said Sunday, part of a series of attacks coming as the African nation's civil war escalated in recent days.

At least 70 people were killed after a drone strike targeted the last functioning hospital in the besieged capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state late Friday, according to local officials and the World Health Organization.

Tehran, IRNA – Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei has condemned a drone attack on a hospital in El Fasher city in Sudan’s western region of Darfur that left at least 70 people dead.