Via Radio Dabanga: Three killed, hospital stormed in large Khartoum protests. Excerpt:
Several Sudanese cities were in turmoil by large-scale protests yesterday which security forces clamped-down with the use of bullets and tear gas. At least three people are confirmed dead. Again, security forces stormed a hospital treating wounded protesters.
Khartoum, El Obeid, Atbara, Port Sudan, Wad Madani, El Duweim, en Sennar witnessed demonstrations calling for the step-down of President Omar Al Bashir and the departure of the Sudanese government.
Sudanese security forces, including riot police and National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), used excessive violence against the demonstrations amid a large deployment of security forces that used live bullets, baton sticks and tear gas.
Vehicles with security personnel in official and plain clothes were stationed across the downtown area of Khartoum and along the route of Thursday’s march in the capital.
They shot dead at least two people, wounded dozens of demonstrators. Eight of them are in serious conditions. A number of people suffocated during the protests owing to the tear gas attacks and crowds of people.
A currently unknown number of people has been detained in the Khartoum mass protest yesterday. Several sources reported that dozens to hundreds of people were detained.
Doctor and boy killed
In a press statement, the independent Central Sudanese Doctors’ Committee said that the demonstrations on Thursday resulted in the death of two demonstrators who were shot dead in the head, namely, doctor Babikir Abdelhamid and a boy, Mohamed Obeid, by the authorities.
Eight demonstrators were seriously wounded, including five with gunshot wounds. The committee reported that the wounded were taken to Fideil hospital.
The two deaths have also been confirmed to the AFP news agency by the relatives of the two victims.
Man treating victims killed
Reports received by Radio Dabanga on Friday morning also confirm that Moaia Khalil (60 years) died from wounds he sustained at the hands of security forces the night before. He was shot in Burri neighbourhood in Khartoum, where he lived.
In a statement of the Central Sudanese Doctors’ Committee received by Radio Dabanga on Friday, it is reported that Khalil was shot in his house where he was giving medical treatment to demonstrators when the security force attempted to storm inside. Khalil went outside to explain that he is a doctor upon which they shot him.
