Sudanese opposition: Death toll rises to 5 people

SANAA, April 7 (YPA) – Death toll from protests in the capital Khartoum on Saturday rose to five, while the government said that only one person had been killed, according to medical sources affiliated with the Sudanese opposition.

Sudanese Central Committee of Physicians said in a statement issued on Sunday that the death toll had risen after “the deaths of protesters, Mab  Hanafi, engineer Ahmed Ibrahim Tabidi  and another unknown  person.”

“They all died as a result of gunshot wounds,” the statement read.

On Sunday, the committee announced the death of “Amr Jamal after being hit by a bullet in the head”, and “Doctor Abdel Moez Attallah”.

“One of the citizens died in a riot in the west of the capital city of Omdurman,” the Sudanese police said on Saturday.

Government for its part, Minister of Information Ismail Hassan said in a statement that “the regular forces are dealing with a patriotic spirit with protesters in the vicinity of the army’s General Command in Khartoum.”

In Khartoum, the biggest demonstrations in Khartoum have taken place since protests began on December 19 to demand the resignation of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

The gathering of professionals and the coalition opposition parties within the framework of the so-called “Sudan’s One Nation parade” called for the handover of a memorandum to the Sudanese army demanding intervention for al-Bashir’s resignation.

E.M