At least five demonstrators have lost their lives in opposition protests in Sudan's capital Khartoum. This reports, among other things, the British news channel "BBC". As the opposition alliance "Declaration for Freedom and Change" reports, the Rapid Reaction Forces (RSF), a military unit, shot at demonstrators during the night of Tuesday.
It is the military transitional council responsible for the incident on Monday, said Chalid Omer of the opposition alliance. According to the Transitional Council, one member of the armed forces was also killed. According to him, unknown groups were responsible for the violence, which wanted to "escalate" the situation between the military and the demonstrators, it said.
The incident overshadows efforts to make the coup against the long-term ruler al-Bashir peaceful. On Monday, representatives of the opposition and the ruling generals had agreed on the structures of a transitional government, as a spokesman for the military transitional council announced. Both sides have been struggling since the coup a month ago to form a transitional government.
Sudan's long-term ruler Umar al-Bashir was overthrown by the military after three decades in power on April 11. The coup was preceded by months of mass protests, some of which were brutally suppressed by the government.
Al-Bashir was arrested after the coup. According to state news agency Suna, the prosecutor's office has charged the 75-year-old on Monday with inciting violence against demonstrators and complicity in killing protesters. Al-Bashir has been wanted for years for arrest warrants for crimes in the Darfur conflict by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.