Sudan Security Forces Fire Tear Gas at Protesters (Photos)

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas, on Thursday, to disperse protesters in street clashes in the eastern Khartoum district of Burri.

Thousands of people have flooded into the streets to protest the military coup that threatens the country’s shaky progress toward democracy.

On Monday, Sudan’s top general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan declared a state of emergency and dissolved the authorities leading the country’s democratic transition. Al-Burhan announced the formation of a new government after soldiers detained civilian leaders in what activists denounced as a “coup”.

A health official stated that seven protesters have been killed in Sudan since a military coup four days ago, adding that other bodies had since arrived without giving an exact number.

“On Monday, morgues in Khartoum and Omdurman received the bodies of seven civilians,” Hisham Fagiri, head of the health ministry’s forensic authority, told AFP.

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