At least nine children have been killed and 50 others injured in Sudan where fighting has continued for a sixth day, the UN children’s agency Unicef says.
Some children are sheltering in schools and care centres, the agency adds, meanwhile hospitals have been forced to evacuate children as shelling has moved closer.
“The fighting has disrupted critical, life-saving care for an estimated 50,000 severely acutely malnourished children. These vulnerable children need ongoing, round-the-clock care, which is being put at risk by the escalating violence,” Unicef has said in a statement.
It said if the violence is not stopped, “children will continue to pay the price”.
Over $40m (£32m) of vaccines and insulin are at risk of spoiling due to unprecedented power cuts in the ongoing Sudan crisis, Unicef said.
As things stand than 270 people have died in the violence since Saturday, according to a statement from the US embassy in Khartoum.