KHATOUM (Sudan): Security forces in Sudan have fired tear gas and ammunition at demonstrators protesting against the killing of five people, including four students.
Protesters took to streets in the capital Khartoum on Tuesday to condemn the killing. The students were killed after teenagers in the northern city of El-Obeid rallied against fuel and bread shortages.
Images posted on social media appeared to show security forces attempting to disperse the demonstrations
Concerns are rising that the latest protest could turn violent.
Medics in Omdurman, which is the twin city of the capital Khartoum, said there were multiple injured protesters who came in with gunshot wounds..
“There are reports of other injuries due to tear gas canisters as well as due to Rapid Support Forces (RSF) running over protesters in several parts of Khartoum.”
Meanwhile, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC), told reporters on Tuesday the killings in the North Kordofan city of El-Obeid were “unacceptable”.
“What happened in El-Obeid is a regrettable and upsetting matter and the killing of peaceful citizens is unacceptable and rejected and a crime that requires immediate and deterrent accountability,” he was quoted as saying by the official SUNA news agency.
Protesters accuse the RSF, headed by al-Burhan’s deputy General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, of shooting dead the five teenagers.
On Tuesday, the UN children’s agency UNICEF called on Sudanese authorities “to investigate and hold all perpetrators of violence against children accountable”.
“No child should be buried in their school uniform,” the agency said, adding the students killed were aged between 15 and 17 years.
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