- Demonstrators demand restoration of the transition to civilian rule that was derailed by last year’s coup.
- Crowds burn tyres and barricade roads with bricks, with security forces using water cannons.
- The death toll from protest-related violence has reached 114 since the coup.
Hundreds of anti-coup Sudanese protesters demanding an end to military rule took to the streets of Khartoum and its suburbs for the fourth day in a row on Sunday, Witnesses said.
On Thursday, nine people were killed in a violent crackdown by security forces during mass rallies, the deadliest day in several months in the long-running protests against a military takeover last October led by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
Recent protests have seen crowds burn tyres and barricade roads with bricks, with security forces firing barrages of tear gas canisters and using powerful water cannons.
Demonstrators demand a restoration of the transition to civilian rule that was launched after the 2019 ouster of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir, which the coup derailed.
The death toll from protest-related violence has reached 114 since last year’s coup, with the latest fatality recorded Sunday when a demonstrator died from wounds sustained at a June 16 rally, according to pro-democracy medics.
The coup plunged Sudan further into an political and economic turmoil which has seen rising consumer prices and life-threatening food shortages.
On Sunday, witnesses reported a heavy deployment of security forces on the streets of Khartoum, including both army vehicles as well as those of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a feared paramilitary unit commanded by Burhan’s deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
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