Armed men attacked a team taking supplies to one of only two hospitals open in southern Khartoum.
MSF medics are treating war-wounded across Sudan - and over the border in Chad where many from Darfur are fleeingMedics in Sudan's capital have been beaten and whipped by armed men who attacked their convoy, medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières says.
MSF is one of only a few international aid groups still supporting hospitals in Khartoum and its twin city of Omdurman, helping to keep afloat a health system that has been under strain for decades.But the charity warned this might have to stop because of a dramatic deterioration in security with several incidents in which its staff had been targeted.
"If an incident like this happens again, and if our ability to move supplies continues to be obstructed, then, regrettably, our presence in the Turkish Hospital will soon become untenable," MSF's Christophe Garnier said in a statement.
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