The official toll differs from earlier reports, including a claim by the BBC that more than 200 people were killed when drones hit mourners and a fuel market. Previous estimates from the region's caretaker Information Minister, Yohana Akol Ngor, and other news agencies placed the death toll at 73 people with 19 others injured. Ngor attributed the massacre to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), though he provided no evidence for the claim.
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Sudan Army Drone Attack Kills 53 in Abyei Market
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Local officials on Tuesday provided a revised casualty count for a military air raid in the contested border region with South Sudan. A total of 53 people died after drones from the Sudanese army struck a local marketplace in the Abyei region, according to reports cited by AFP. The attack is the most recent in a series of deadly strikes across the territory, which is jointly administered by both nations.
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