At least 60 children die in six weeks at Khartoum orphanage amid Sudan conflict

Infants, toddlers and older children died from fever or lack of food while trapped in deteriorating conditions

At least 60 infants, toddlers and older children have 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.