The Head of a Sudanese Investigative Committee has said that eighty seven people were killed and over one hundred and sixty wounded on June 3 when a sit-in protest was violently broken up by security forces.
The Head of the committee, Fath al-Rahman Saeed told a news conference that seventeen of those killed were in the square occupied by protesters and forty eighty of the wounded were hit by bullets.
Some security forces fired at protesters and three officers violated orders by moving forces into the sit-in, he said, adding that an order was also issued to whip protesters.
Opposition medics have said one hundred twenty seven people were killed and about four hundred wounded in the dispersal, while the Health Ministry had put the death toll at sixty one.
The sit-in outside the Defence Ministry in the capital Khartoum was a focal point for protests that led to the ouster of longtime President Omar al-Bashir on April 11.
