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Publisher (J.T)
July 28, 2019
The Head of a Sudanese Investigative Committee hassaid that eighty seven people were killed and over one hundred and sixtywounded on June 3 when a sit-in protest was violently broken up by securityforces.
The Head of the committee, Fath al-Rahman Saeed tolda news conference that seventeen of those killed were in the square occupied byprotesters and forty eighty of the wounded were hit by bullets.
Some security forces fired at protesters and threeofficers violated orders by moving forces into the sit-in, he said, adding thatan order was also issued to whip protesters.
Opposition medics have said one hundred twenty sevenpeople were killed and about four hundred wounded in the dispersal, while theHealth Ministry had put the death toll at sixty one.
The sit-in outside the Defence Ministry in thecapital Khartoum was a focal point for protests that led to the ouster oflongtime President Omar al-Bashir on April 11.