Sudan Says 87 Killed, 168 Wounded When June 3 Protest Broken
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 7:10 am
An injured man is carried on a stretcher during protests in Khartoum, Sudan, June 3, 2019 in this image taken from a video obtained from social media.
KHARTOUM - The head of a Sudanese investigative committee said on Saturday that 87 people were killed and 168 wounded on June 3 when a sit-in protest was violently broken up by security forces.
Fath al-Rahman Saeed, the head of the committee, said 17 of those killed were in the square occupied by protesters and 48 of the wounded were hit by bullets.
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Saeed said some security forces fired at protesters and that three officers violated orders by moving forces into the sit-in.
He also said an order was issued to whip protesters.