Paramilitaries in Khartoum threw dozens of bodies into the Nile to try to hide the number of casualties inflicted during a dawn attack on pro-democracy protesters in the Sudanese capital earlier this week, doctors and activists have said. Residents blocked many roads with makeshift barricades as they tried to protect their neighbourhoods from the paramilitaries and thieves. The Sudan Doctors’ Committee, however, said the security forces had retrieved at least 40 bodies from the Nile and disposed of them. The doctors’ committee is the medical arm of the Sudanese Professionals Association, which has been leading the opposition to military rule. Sudan paramilitaries raped and assaulted protesters and medics Read moreDagalo said in a televised address to troops on Wednesday that Sudan would not be allowed to slip into chaos.

Source: The Guardian June 05, 2019 09:57 UTC