SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - Sudan death toll rises to 100 as 40 bodies found in Nile, say doctors

5/6/19: Multiple sources – Sudan death toll rises to 100, as 40 bodies found in Nile, say doctors

• CNN

• BBC

• AP, by Bassem Hatoum and Samy Magdy

• Guardian, by Jason Burke and Zeinab Mohammed Salih

• Telegraph

 The death toll from Monday's attack on the sit-in of Sudan's pro-democracy protesters has risen to 100, after 40 bodies were recovered from the River Nile, according to the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors (CCSD).

 Sixty people were already reported to have been killed by paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the military crackdown in Khartoum, before scores of bodies were found dumped in the river, said the CCSD, which is close to the protesters.

 Previous estimates put the number of casualties from the attack on a sit-in on Monday at 40. The death toll is expected to rise. 

 Residents in Khartoum said they were living in fear as members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) roamed the streets. The paramilitary unit - formerly known as the Janjaweed militia - gained notoriety in the Darfur conflict in western Sudan in 2003.