A previous toll given by the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors had counted 40 dead since the bloody dispersal of a weeks-long sit-in outside army headquarters in Khartoum on Monday. The committee said it held "the militias of the (military) council... responsible for this massacre." Following the deadly crackdown, the military council announced it was abandoning all previous agreements reached with protest leaders on a transition to civilian rule. The protest movement in turn dismissed the generals' promise of elections within nine months instead. In the early morning, sporadic shooting could be heard in the Khartoum 2 neighbourhood, an area where there are several embassies, an AFP reporter said.

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 05, 2019 07:07 UTC