SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Seven killed, 140 hurt in protests against military coup in Sudan

25/10/2021: Multiple sources – Seven killed, 140 hurt in protests against military coup in Sudan

• Reuters, by Khalid Abdelaziz

• AFP

• Bloomberg, by Simon Marks

•  BBC

• Telegraph, by James Rothwell, Tom Collins and Campbell MacDiarmid

• Radio Dabanga

A Sudanese health ministry official said seven people were killed by gunfire and 140 injured as large numbers poured on to the streets of Khartoum and Omdurman demanding the return of civilian rule.

Demonstrators blocked streets with burning tires and bricks, and marched waving the Sudanese flag and chanting anti-coup slogans. The information ministry said soldiers “fired live bullets on protesters… outside the army headquarters”. Analysts said the generals are trying to maintain their historic control.

Magdi el-Gizouli of the Rift Valley Institute told AFP that resistance to the coup could be brutally repressed. “The military will have little option but to crush it by force,” he said.