The World Health Organization (WHO) said Khartoum residents were at risk due to one of the fighting factions in Sudan capturing a laboratory which is holding various pathogens. The UN body did not say which of the two sides involved in the current conflict was occupying the facility. The lab is storing cholera bacteria and other potentially dangerous items.

Technicians had been unable to access the National Public Health Laboratory to secure the materials, the WHO’s Nima Saeed Abid told reporters in Geneva via video link from Sudan.

“This is the main concern: no accessibility to the lab technicians to go to the lab and safely contain the biological material and substances available,” he said, speaking of a “huge biological risk.”

Fighting in Sudan between armed forces loyal to de facto leader General Abdel-Fattah Burhan and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries supporting his deputy, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, broke out on April 15.

At least 459 people have been killed, according to WHO figures, and hospitals and essential services have been paralyzed.

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