SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - Security agents attack Sudanese sit-ins, several killed

14/5/19: Multiple sources – Security agents attack Sudanese sit-ins, several killed

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Members of the Sudanese security forces have shot and killed six people, including an army officer, in overnight clashes with protesters, a medical union said.

 Local media suggested some of the assailants appeared to be wearing military uniform, including that of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary force behind counterinsurgency campaigns in Darfur and other regions that is led by Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, who is widely known by his nickname Hemedti.

 The attackers were strongly condemned, however, by the head of the transitional military council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who said they were “trying to abort agreement with the forces of freedom and change”, as the opposition coalition is known.

Burhan pointed to the peaceful character of the Sudanese revolution, adding: “The army is committed to protecting the protesters and we will arrest the perpetrators and we will hold them accountable