One killed in Sudan anti-coup protests, claim medics

Sudanese security forces on Thursday shot dead a protester during renewed demonstrations against last year's military coup led by army general Abdel Fattah Al Burhan, pro-democracy medics said. The northeast African country has been gripped by unrest since Burhan seized power on October 25, 2021. The demonstrator was shot in the capital's twin city of Omdurman, the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors said, bringing the total death toll from a crackdown on near-weekly anticoup demonstrations to 120. The protester, who was not named, died of wounds sustained after he was “hit in the abdomen by a bullet fired by security forces”, the committee said. It was the first death since a security forces' vehicle ran over a protester, medics said earlier, during demonstrations last month marking a year since the putsch.