Sudanese fleeing a paramilitary force that seized a city in the country’s Darfur region trickled into a nearby refugee camp Thursday after walking for miles, telling aid workers that roads were littered with bodies. Aid groups feared for the fate of thousands more trying to escape, with hundreds reportedly killed in the turmoil surrounding the city’s fall.

The UN Security Council convened an emergency meeting on Sudan amid international alarm over the bloodshed. During the takeover of the city of el-Fasher, paramilitary gunmen reportedly killed more than 400 people in a hospital.

Speaking at the meeting, UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher criticized the Security Council for not acting sooner in Sudan. The country has been torn for the past two years in a war between the military and the

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