A drone strike on a funeral procession in El-Obeid, Sudan, has killed at least four people and wounded several others, as violence continues to escalate in the country’s devastating civil war.

According to local rights organizations, the attack occurred on Wednesday evening, June 10, when a drone struck mourners gathered at a cemetery in the strategic Kordofan city. The groups blamed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for the strike, though the RSF has not publicly responded to the allegations.

The funeral attack was part of a broader wave of drone strikes that hit El-Obeid throughout the evening, leaving at least 23 people dead. Rights monitors said additional strikes targeted residential neighborhoods, the airport district, and areas near a Sudanese army base, killing civilians who had gathered around damaged homes.

The legal advocacy group Emergency Lawyers reported that five civilians were killed in separate attacks earlier in the day.

Violence continued on Thursday (June 11th) when a drone reportedly struck a truck transporting food supplies, killing the driver and further disrupting humanitarian efforts in the region.

El-Obeid, which remains under the control of the Sudanese Armed Forces, has become a key battleground in Sudan’s three-year conflict between the army and the RSF. The city sits in the oil-rich Kordofan region, a strategically important area whose control is critical to both territory and access to Sudan’s energy resources.

The war has fueled what aid agencies describe as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. More than 11 million people have been displaced, while an estimated 28 million face acute food insecurity. Independent estimates place the conflict’s death toll between 150,000 and 400,000 people.

As fighting intensifies across Sudan, attacks on civilian areas continue to raise concerns over the growing human cost of a conflict with no clear end in sight.