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The death toll from a drone strike on displaced people in Sudan's Blue Nile state has risen to 16, a local official said, from nine reported earlier this week.
Abdelati al-Faki, commissioner of Kurmuk locality in the state's south-east, confirmed the revised figure of 16 dead and six wounded while visiting the injured, Sudan Tribune reported on Friday. Several people are also missing. The victims were displaced people travelling towards Damazin, the state capital, when the drone hit them near the town of Bani Shako in Kurmuk. Al-Faki had put the toll at nine on Tuesday.
Local authorities have moved wounded survivors to Damazin. Survivors told the newspaper that injured and missing people were still unaccounted for in the area south-east of the city, and that 16 had been killed.
Sudan Tribune attributes the strike to the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group at war with the army. That attribution has not been independently verified. The revised figures are attributed to the commissioner and survivors; Friday is the date of the report, not an established date for the strike.