Sudan death toll nears 100 as fighting rages and hospitals run short of supplies

WHO warns some hospitals in Khartoum short of blood and other critical supplies to treat wounded and clashes enter third day

• Explainer: why is there fighting in Sudan?

At least 97 people have been killed and hundreds wounded as clashes spread across Sudan, and the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that some hospitals are running out of critical supplies to treat the injured.

Fighting erupted on Saturday between army units loyal to General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of Sudan’s transitional governing Sovereign Council, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, who is deputy head of the council.