Monitor accuses Sudan army of major strike on Darfur market

A Sudanese monitor accused the army Tuesday of carrying out one of the deadliest air strikes in the country’s nearly two-year war on a rebel-held town in the western region of Darfur.

The Emergency Lawyers, a group of volunteer legal professionals, said “hundreds of civilians” were killed in an “indiscriminate air strike on Tora market in North Darfur”, while two residents who took part in burial operations said they had counted 270 bodies.

AFP could not independently verify a toll or reach…