Sudanese security forces shot dead an anti-coup protester on Wednesday as American diplomats visited Khartoum seeking to help end a crisis which has claimed dozens of lives and derailed the country’s democratic transition.
For two days shops have shuttered and protesters have blockaded streets in a civil disobedience campaign to protest the killing of seven people during a demonstration on Monday, one of the bloodiest days since the coup.
The latest killing took place in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman where protesters opposed to the October 25 coup had set up barricades.
Pro-democracy medics from the Doctors’ Committee said the protester was shot in the torso “by live bullets of the (security) forces”.
Witnesses also reported the use of tear gas in the eastern Khartoum area.
The death brings to 72 the number of people killed in a security crackdown against protesters who regularly take to the street calling for a return to the country’s democratic transition and…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
