Gunmen in military uniform attacked a trader and police officer in Damazin market in Sudan’s Blue Nile state, witnesses in the town told Radio Tamazuj yesterday.
The men in military uniform allegedly from the army were involved in an altercation with the trader who sells mobile phones, saying they had given him a cell phone for maintenance which led a police officer to intervene to rescue the situation.
They added that the armed group started beating the trader and the police officer in front of the people in the marketplace. The witnesses said this is not the first time such an incident happens, adding that a case occurred recently that resulted in murder.