Sudan.. 3 dead in the "October 30 Million" protests in Khartoum

Three protesters were killed Saturday in Khartoum, as tens of thousands of Sudanese took to the streets to demand a civilian government, six days after army chief Lieutenant-General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan expelled his civilian partners in political institutions for a transitional period.

The Sudanese Central Committee of Doctors said in a statement that two Sudanese "were killed by security forces' bullets".

The committee added in a later statement, "The death of a third person today (a young man of 19 years) in Al-Arbaeen Hospital, after he was shot with live bullets in the chest."

This brings the death toll of the protests to 12 dead since Monday and nearly 300 wounded.

In a statement, the Sudanese police denied the use of live bullets and said, "There are groups of demonstrators who left Salamiyah and attacked the police and some important sites, which prompted the police to use tear gas to disperse them.

"Civilian is our choice," chanted demonstrators in all neighborhoods of the Sudanese capital.

They repeated many of the slogans of their uprising that toppled al-Bashir in April 2019, such as “freedom, peace, justice” and “revolutionaries, free, we will continue the journey,” while some of them were raising pictures of the dismissed Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok, who was placed under house arrest in his home in Khartoum.

Witnesses and AFP correspondents said that the demonstrations began in the afternoon in the suburb of Omdurman, northwest of Khartoum, and quickly spread to all neighborhoods of Khartoum. Demonstrations also took place in the cities of Port Sudan and Kassala in eastern Sudan.

And on Saturday morning, the phone lines were cut in Khartoum, with the possibility of calling from abroad only to Sudanese phones.

Also, the Internet was broken.

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