Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN)–At least two protesters were killed during protests against military rule in Sudan, on Sunday, according to the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors.
The committee, which supports the protests calling for the restoration of civilian rule, said that one of the demonstrators, a young man in his twenties, had received a “violent direct injury to the head by the forces of the coup d’etat, which led to a laceration of the skull during his participation in the January 2 million marches in Omdurman locality”, located in the area of State of the capital Khartoum.
While the second protester was killed “after being shot in the chest (…) in Omdurman local processions.”
The Central Committee of Doctors of Sudan Urgent, the rise of a second martyr from the #millions of January 2 The soul of a martyr whose data has not yet been identified has risen after being shot in the chest by the forces of the coup d’etat during his participation in the #millions of January 2 in Omdurman local processions. This increases the number of martyrs you have claimed https://t.co/ppr8tMj9ZX
Video footage of Sudanese security forces’ attempts to disperse the demonstrators showed Khartoum and other cities.
And Sunday’s demonstrations are the 12th round of protests rejecting a coup that ousted Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok from his position on October 25, before returning him to him under an agreement with the head of the Sovereign Council, Lieutenant-General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in November.
The death toll has risen to 56 since the military coup in power, including 14 people who were killed since the Burhan and Hamdok agreement, according to the Sudan Doctors Committee.
Participants in the demonstrations demand that the army not interfere in politics and the democratic transition process.
On Thursday, there were 5 deaths in the protests against the military rule, and the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors, in a statement, said that four people were killed during Thursday’s protests.
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