Thousands of Sudanese protested against last month’s coup in Khartoum and other cities on Wednesday, with security forces shooting dead at least five people and wounding dozens, medics said.
The protesters marched in scattered neighbourhoods across Khartoum and its twin cities of Bahri and Omdurman as security forces fired live bullets and tear gas after mobile phone communications were cut earlier in the day, witnesses said.
“The coup forces used live bullets heavily in different areas of the capital and there are tens of gunshot injuries, some of them in serious condition,” said the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors, a group of medics aligned with the protest movement. —AFP
