Khartoum
\nSudanese security forces shot dead four people during a crackdown on nationwide protests, a doctors\u2019 committee said, as tens of thousands of people marched against military rule. Security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades as protesters marched through Khartoum and the neighbouring cities of Omdurman and Bahri towards the presidential palace, media reported.
\nThe Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said four protesters were shot dead by security forces, at least three of them in Omdurman.
\nMedia quoted an adviser to military leader Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan as saying the military would not allow anyone to pull the country into chaos and that continued protests were a \u201cphysical, psychological and mental drain on the country\u201d and \u201cwould not achieve a political solution\u201d.
\nThursday\u2019s protests are the 11th round of major demonstrations since an Oct. 25 coup which saw Abdallah Hamdok removed and then reinstated as prime minister. The demonstrators have demanded that the military play no role in government during a transition to free elections.
\nThe Forces of Freedom and Change coalition said that security forces \u201cused excessive repression\u201d on Thursday and called on \u201cregional and international communities and human rights organizations to condemn the coup.\u201d
\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrote on Twitter that he was troubled by reports of lethal force and the United States \u201cstands with the people of Sudan, as they demand freedom, peace, and justice.\u201d
\nThe UN Special Representative to Sudan, Volker Perthes, said that he was \u201cdeeply disturbed\u201d by the deaths, adding that \u201call people have the right to express themselves peacefully; media have to report freely.\u201d
\nSecurity forces confronted the protesters about 2 km from the palace in the centre of the capital, media reported.
\nProtesters continued facing tear gas in the city of Bahri past sundown near a blocked bridge connecting it to the capital, another Reuters witness said. Volleys of heavy tear gas followed protesters into neighbourhoods after being turned away from a bridge.
\nThe Khartoum State Ministry of Health also said in a statement that security forces in Omdurman prevented ambulances from carrying the injured to nearby hospitals, adding that the \u201cscale of repression exceeded expectations.\u201d
\nThe doctors\u2019 committee said security forces arrested an injured man along with medical staff who tried to get him into an ambulance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Khartoum Sudanese security forces shot dead four people during a crackdown on nationwide protests, a doctors\u2019 committee said, as tens of thousands of people marched against military rule. Security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades as protesters marched through Khartoum and the neighbouring cities of Omdurman and Bahri towards the presidential palace, media reported. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-236127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n