SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Sudan suspends all schools after students killed during protests

31/7/19: Multiple sources – Sudan suspends all schools after students killed during protests

• CNN, by Sharif Paget, Hande Atay Alam, Nada Altaher and Bukola Adebayo

• BBC

 Authorities in Sudan have suspended all schools beginning on Wednesday, following the fatal dispersal of a protest in El-Obeid which killed at least six, of whom four were schoolchildren.

 "The Secretary General of the Federal Government Bureau, Siddiq Gumaa Babal-Khair, has directed the caretaker Walis (governors) of States to suspend education at all the school levels as of Wednesday," state news agency SUNA reported, citing a directive of the Sudanese Transitional Military Council (TMC).

 TMC leader Abdelfattah Al Burhan condemned the killings on Sudanese state television, calling for immediate accountability.

 Sudanese protesters have accused the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group of carrying out the shootings.