A 27-year-old protester was killed in Khartoum after suffering a “wound to the chest by coup forces,” the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors (CCSD) said in a statement on Sunday.
Armed soldiers and military vehicles were deployed across the city for the first time in recent weeks in an apparent show of force. Security forces fired tear gas to try to disperse the crowds who were marching in defiance of a ban on demonstrations.
“Mohamed Yousif Ismail has been killed during the attacks by the security forces on today’s (January 30th) pro-democracy protests in Khartoum, after sustaining a chest trauma,” the CCSD added.
CCSD noted that Yousif’s death brings the total number of people killed since last year’s military coup to 79, and more than 2,000 people have been wounded in the protests.
More than three months after Sudan’s 25 October takeover led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, defiant mass rallies called by the Sudanese Professionals Association and the Resistance Committees, demanding a restoration of the transition to civilian rule shows few signs of abating.