Sudanese forces open fire on anti-coup protests, killing 3

CAIRO — Sudanese information forces opened occurrence connected protesters Monday, sidesplitting astatine slightest 3 radical and wounding respective arsenic thousands took to the streets successful Khartoum and elsewhere successful the state to denounce an October subject coup, activists said.

The subject takeover has scuttled hopes of a peaceful modulation to ideology successful Sudan, much than 2 years aft a fashionable uprising forced the removal of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir successful April 2019.

The turmoil has been amplified aft Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok stepped down earlier this month. Hamdok resigned aft his efforts to span the spread betwixt the generals and the country’s pro-democracy question failed.

Monday’s deaths bring to astatine slightest 67 the fig of radical killed successful near-daily demonstrations successful the superior of Khartoum and different cities and towns successful Sudan.

Footage circulating online shows protesters, mostly young people, marching successful the streets of Khartoum and its duplicate metropolis of Omdurman. There were besides protests successful Port Sudan, Wad Madani Obaid and the occidental Darfur region.

Activist Nazim Sirag said 3 protesters were killed erstwhile information forces opened occurrence to interruption up a march successful Khartoum. He said respective others were wounded by gunshots.

The Sudan Doctors Committee, which is portion of the pro-democracy movement, besides reported the deaths and said dozens of others were wounded Monday successful Khartoum.

The fatalities volition apt further complicate U.N. efforts to find a mode retired of the ongoing crisis. The United Nations and Western governments person wide condemned the crackdown connected protesters.

The demonstrations are called by the Sudanese Professionals Association and the Resistance Committees, which were the backbone of the uprising against al-Bashir. The 2 groups cull negotiations with the military, insisting it manus implicit powerfulness to a afloat civilian authorities to pb the transition.

The generals, meanwhile, cull the protesters’ demands, saying that powerfulness volition beryllium handed implicit lone to an elected government.