Two infant South Sudanese boys who went missing after attending a party in their neighborhood in a Khartoum suburb last month were discovered dead in a car south of the Sudanese capital after three days.
The Khartoum Police said the two children were raped and later died of suffocation and that five suspects had been arrested.
The boys, Changkuoth aged 4, and Turkey, 7, had been living with their parents in the Kalakla area of Khartoum city.
John Oyual, the distraught father of the deceased boys, told Radio Tamazuj over the weekend that the two children accompanied their mother to a function in the neighborhood but were never to be seen alive again.
“The mother of my children was invited for a function by neighbors and she informed me and went with the children. This was on 19 August at about 4 pm. When she came back alone, I asked her where the children were,” Oyual narrated. “She said the children left her and returned home but I told her the children had not returned home. We went and looked for them at the place of the function but they were not there so I went and reported to the police station the same evening that my children were lost.”
He said that the next day, Saturday 21 August, he went and opened a formal missing person’s case at Kalakla Lafa police station and checked other police stations but failed to find them.
“On Monday 23 August, a woman, the neighbor, came wailing to our home and said that two children have been found dead in a vehicle and that we should go and see if they were ours. She even knows my children. When we got there, we found that indeed they were my children. The older one was put on top of his younger sibling. The police officers from the Andlos police station took their dead bodies for investigations,” Oyual said.
He said the Khartoum Police told the family that the postmortem revealed that the two children "died as a result of being raped and lack of oxygen."
The police later in a statement published on their Facebook account said that they arrested five suspects after investigation.
The father of the deceased children said he had not been given a copy of the postmortem certificate.
"I only heard the result of the certificate from the public. I should be handed the certificate because I am the father of the children," Oyual said.