Sudan .. the wedding ceremony that turned into funerals

Muzdalifah Muhammad Othman - Khartoum

In the worst nightmares, residents of Hajj Yousef Al-Bastet, east of the Sudanese capital, did not imagine that the preliminary wedding ceremony for the neighbors would turn into three mourings surrounding the bride's house and her family.

After long hours after a hand grenade exploded by one of those present at the "Henna Concert" and turned it into pieces, the faces were still experiencing violent shock, and the signs of grief left the wedding only to return when they remember how the songs turned into lamentations and screams within 25 seconds is the period it took The painful scene.

According to a brief statement issued by the police press office late Monday, the family party accident killed five people, including the holder of the explosive bomb, and my system "came to the scene" - according to the statement - along with four others.

The police explained that the explosion, which occurred around six o'clock in the evening, Monday, during a "special ceremony", resulted in more than 25 people from the audience with varying injuries.

"As soon as the communication was received, the police forces moved to the scene of the accident, where the injured were taken to the hospital to receive first aid and treatment, and the competent police units began investigation and investigation procedures, and a communication was opened at the Al-Shaqla police department in the jurisdiction."

Conflicting novels
But at the scene of the accident visited by Al Jazeera Net, accounts were contradictory about the number of dead and injured, as witnesses confirmed that the death toll was seven, among them three children, and those with two of them set up condolences near the house of the bloody family occasion, where blood stains still filled the land.

Khaled and Muhammad - both youths of the resistance committees in Al-Hajj Youssef - confirm to Al-Jazeera Net that the rapid intervention of the people contributed to the aid of dozens to nearby hospitals, where the scene was very ugly with the extremities flying some of the victims due to the force of the explosion.

They pointed out that the total number of the injured amounted to 55, some of them were slightly injured, and they left the hospital after first aid, while the dangerous cases were transferred to East Nile hospitals, "Royal Care" and "Al-Amal", where some are expected to undergo urgent operations.

The two young men who supervised the rescue operations and were making calls to urge the young people to go to the hospitals to donate blood, that one of the injured people lost one of his feet or hands, while others suffer from fractures in the leg and neck.

"It was clear that the regular who was carrying the bomb was closest to it by the fact that he lost his limbs and was severely damaged by the explosion," said this story, which limited the talk about the man's deliberate throwing the bomb at the ceremony, and ruled out the existence of any political motives behind the incident.

No previous knowledge
Dalia Hassan, the young sister who was preparing for the wedding, confirms that they do not know the man who exploded the bomb, contrary to what is reported on social media.

Dalia says that the information they obtained later indicated that he lives in a neighborhood not far away, "but we do not know anything about him, and we do not know why he came carrying the bomb."

She points out that her relatives told her that he chanted in their faces, asking them to stay away because he would deliver something that he was carrying, no one knew as such, until everyone heard the sound of the explosion and the screams of the victims.

Dalia says to Al-Jazeera Net that the accident occurred after the end of the mini-party, and most of the guests went up and neighbors and relatives remained among them, adding that most of them are now in hospital suffering from various injuries.

Another young man from the neighborhood where the explosion occurred explains that the bomber was a young man carrying the bomb since he came to the spot in the afternoon, and that he showed it to some of the people as a show and show of strength.

And the young man, in his talk to Al-Jazeera Net, suggests a new hypothesis of the accident, according to which the bomb may have fallen from under his clothes, so he tried to catch it, but it exploded in his face, ruling that the accident was deliberate.

According to a senior state police official who asked Al-Jazeera Net, investigations are ongoing to find out how the young man obtained the bomb and the regulatory authority he belongs to.

Until now, there is no talk about the residents of the neighborhood and the surrounding areas except for the painful explosion and its causes which are still covered in mystery, while the most prominent question remains unanswered: How and why does my regime move with a bomb? Who is responsible for the lives of the victims?