At least 53 people, including 14 children and 15 women, have been killed in an attack on a displacement shelter in a besieged city in North Darfur.

The Sudan Doctors' Network said Sudanese paramilitaries were behind the shelling attack, which also wounded another 21 people, including five more children.

The strike by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) hit the al Arqam Home, which shelters displaced families in Al Fashir, the capital of North Darfur province, the group said.

The attack, late on Friday, was the latest deadly onslaught on Al Fashir, which has been for months the epicentre of the war between the Sudanese military and the paramilitaries.

A spokesperson for the doctors' network - a group of medical professionals tracking the Sudanese civil war - described the attack as a "massac

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