Children 避難させるd from orphanage where dozens died in Sudan's 資本/首都

CAIRO, June 8 (Reuters) - About 300 children have been 避難させるd from an orphanage in Sudan's 資本/首都 Khartoum where dozens of 孤児s were 設立する last month to have died since 中央の-April 予定 to nearby fighting between 競争相手 軍の 派閥s.

The International 委員会 of the Red Cross (ICRC), which 容易にするd the 避難/引き上げ late on Wednesday, said the children 老年の between 1 and 15 had been taken to a safer 場所 in Wad Madani, about 200 kilometres (125 miles) southeast of Khartoum.

The ICRC said in its 初期の 声明 that 280 children and 70 管理人s had been 避難させるd, and an ICRC spokesperson said the number of 避難させるd children had risen to 300 by Thursday morning.

That number was 確認するd by Siddig Frini, general 経営者/支配人 at the Khartoum 明言する/公表する 省 of social 開発, which 監督するs care centres.

The 避難/引き上げ 申し込む/申し出d "a ray of light in the 中央 of the 現在進行中の 衝突 in Sudan", said Mandeep O'Brien, the 代表者/国会議員 in Sudan for U.N. children's 機関 UNICEF.

On May 29, Reuters 報告(する)/憶測d that at least 50 children had died - dozens of them babies - at the 明言する/公表する-run orphanage, known as Mygoma, since the start of the 衝突 in Khartoum on April 15.

An orphanage 公式の/役人 and doctor who 作品 there said the deaths were おもに 原因(となる)d by malnourishment, dehydration and 感染s as most staff were kept away by the fighting.

Hadhreen, a volunteer group that has been helping at the orphanage, said on Wednesday it had 確認するd the deaths of 71 children at the orphanage since the 衝突 started.

No 公式の/役人 death (死傷者)数 has been 問題/発行するd. The orphanage was home to about 400 young children before the 衝突 began.

Frini 拒絶する/低下するd to 供給する 人物/姿/数字s on the death (死傷者)数. The director of the orphanage and the health 省 couldn't すぐに be reached.

"Many millions of children remain at 危険 across Sudan," UNICEF's O'Brien said in a 声明. "Their lives and their 未来s are 存在 危うくするd by this 衝突 every day." (報告(する)/憶測ing by Maggie Michael and Nafisa Eltahir; 令状ing by Aidan 吊りくさび; Editing by Jan Harvey)

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