Khartoum, May 6 (Darfur24) A demonstrator was run over by a vehicle belonging to the Sudanese security forces in Khartoum, Thursday, during protests against the military coup by the army chief last year, according to what the Sudan Doctors Committee announced.
The committee said in a statement on its Facebook page that a demonstrator was killed “after being run over by a vehicle belonging to the forces of the authority, causing him to be injured in the head, chest and abdomen.
This brings to 95 the death toll from the demonstrations since the coup led by General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, on October 25, according to the committee.
Hundreds of Sudanese protesters came out in the capital, Khartoum, and a number of cities, on Thursday, in the May 5 million called for by the resistance committees, as the police confronted the protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets.
Security cars were deployed in the vicinity of Sharoni’s parking lot early Thursday, and hit-and-run operations took place between the protesters and the police on Biyu Kwan Kheth Street. For the first time, elements of the Al-Sawari police from the backs of the hippocampus participated in dispersing the protests.
According to the Socialist Doctors’ Association, dozens of demonstrators were injured, in today’s procession, some of them were taken to nearby hospitals.